A rare but deadly mosquito virus infection has Massachusetts towns urging vigilance

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A rare but deadly disease spread by mosquitoes has one town in Massachusetts closing its parks and fields each evening. Four others are urging people to avoid going outdoors at night. They're concerned about eastern equine encephalitis.

A rare but deadly disease spread by mosquitoes has one town in Massachusetts closing its parks and fields each evening. Four other towns are urging people to avoid going outdoors at night.

Meanwhile, state health officials warned that a cluster of four towns south of Worcester — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — are at “critical risk” after a man from Oxford caught the virus. Jennifer Callahan, Oxford’s town manager, wrote in a memo that the family of the man who caught the virus in mid August had reached out to her office.

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