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A mosquito-spread virus nicknamed"triple E" recently killed a man in New Hampshire and sickened several people in other Northeastern states. The Massachusetts town of Plymouth recently began closing its public parks between dusk and dawn to help cut the risk of people catching the infection.Triple E is another name for eastern equine encephalitis , a potentially deadly viral illness that people can catch from mosquitoes.
Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox. Data suggest that most people exposed to the virus through a mosquito bite don't have any symptoms. When people do get sick, they may have fever, chills, body aches and joint pain, or a more serious illness in which the virus invades the central nervous system, meaning the brain and spinal cord.
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