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Posted: Saturday, 26 September 2009 1:11PM
NH emu found with EEE
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Alstead, NH (AP) -- New Hampshire health officials are trapping mosquitoes in the southwestern part of the state to see how widesspread Eastern equine encephalitis might be following news that an emu in Alstead had come down with the disease.
Jose Montero, director of the state Department of Health and Human Services, called the discovery of the infected emu "an important finding."
He said the disease known as EEE, which is carried by infected mosquitoes, had not found in southwestern New Hampshire previously.
Humans bit by infected mosquitoes can have a result ranging from no symptoms to fever, seizures, coma and death.
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