A little girl who died and a man who became sick in Baldwin County both were victims of an exceptionally rare mosquito-borne disease – eastern equine encephalitis.
“In general, it is just bad luck,” said Dr. Wes Stubblefield, regional medical officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health. ‘And that’s why we want to focus on prevention more than anything.”
Cases of EEE are rare, and Stubblefield said most people who contract the virus never know it. Mild symptoms can include fever, chills and joint pain. But he said about 5 percent of those who do development serous symptoms, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, behavioral changes and even coma Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded just 189 human EEE cases from 2003 until last year, with 169 hospitalizations and 78 deaths. Until these two Baldwin cases, CDC had reported just one case this year, in Louisiana. Alabama hadn’t had a case since 2019
McMillan said the city on Monday placed mosquito traps in various locations identify the species of mosquitos that are in Spanish Fort. He asked people to remove standing water. “These mosquitoes that carry this particular virus are not the same ones that that breed in water containers in your yard,” he said.
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