by: WOODTV.com staff
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials in Michigan say they have confirmed this year’s third case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in a horse, this time in Newaygo County.
The third confirmed EEE case in a horse was announced Thursday by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced
Officials noted the first case, announcedAug. 11, was in a 2-year-old filly in Clare County. The second case, announced last week, was in a 12-year-old mare in Montcalm County.
Experts say EEE is a rare mosquito-borne illness and proves fatal in about a third of people who develop symptoms. That percentage is much higher in horses — 90% — but there is a vaccine for horses and not for people.
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