Richard Pawulski's daughter and his wife are just coming to terms with his death days ago. In 2019, he was bitten by a mosquito in his own backyard. It turned out the insect was infected with the rare ...

The Maine Center for Disease Control says a resident of Maine has contracted the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus, or Triple ...

A female mosquito begins to bite a person’s hand. Mosquito-borne illnesses are a growing concern in Northeastern states. (Tom Ervin/Getty Images) Mosquito-borne illnesses are a growing concern ...

It turned out the insect was infected with the rare Triple E virus. He struggled with the virus ... to terms with the fact that a single mosquito bite did all this.

Known as EEE or “triple E,” the virus can cause disease in humans and animals such as horses and birds. It doesn’t spread from human to human, but is transmitted through the bite of an ...

Richard Pawuski, 49, a health conscious man who never drank alcohol , had been clearing brush in the wooded area behind his home in Colchester, Connecticut , in August 2019.