Mosquito-Borne Virus Keeps Towns On Alert
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › August 29, 2006
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MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. -- In this wet, low-lying town, the football team ends practice before 6 p.m. In Holbrook, the high school's playing fields are protected by bug-zapping Mosquito Magnets. And in Brockton, landscapers are being urged to slather themselves with insect spray at least twice a day.
With three cases of Eastern equine encephalitis now confirmed in the state, including a 9-year-old Middleborough boy in critical condition, jittery residents across southeastern Massachusetts are struggling to defend themselves against a ubiquitous foe that they can see, hear and feel, but not completely avoid.See the full content of this document
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Mosquito-Borne Virus Keeps Towns On Alert
"I think we're all concerned. It's a different world," said Allison J. Ferreira, the assistant to the Middleborough town manager.
Apprehension in the community, which calls itself the "cranberry capita...See the full content of this document
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