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This year’s first Eastern Equine Encephalitis diagnosis has been recorded in the Copper Country.
A horse in Baraga County tested positive for the virus.
EEE is carried by mosquitoes, and can be transmitted to humans through mosquito bites.
Cases are rare, but more than a third of those who become infected die.
Michigan has recorded two human cases this summer, with one death.
Officials caution local residents to avoid exposure to mosquitoes as much as possible. The threat will diminish as the insects die off with the onset of winter.
This is the first EEE diagnosis confirmed in the Upper Peninsula this summer, and the first ever noted in Baraga County. There were two cases on the Keweenaw Peninsula last summer.
