Massachusetts Reports First Human Cases of Mosquito-Borne West Nile Virus

Massachusetts' health agency has reported the first cases of the West Nile virus this year, a dangerous illness carried by mosquitoes. They're urging people to be cautious.

On August 29, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) announced that a man in his 40s got the West Nile virus in Middlesex County, a place already considered somewhat risky.

Another person, a woman in her 70s, got the virus somewhere else in the country. The agency said the risk level remains the same f...

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