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State lawmakers issue report on outbreaks of potentially fatal eastern equine encephalitis
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 6:19 am
Recent summer outbreaks of the potentially fatal disease eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, spurred state lawmakers to examine the problem in New York, and they have issued their report.
The 93-page document, including 13 specific recommendations to improve the state and local response to the virus, is the result of a roundtable last fall, sponsored by the Senate Committees on Agriculture, chaired by Senator Patty Ritchie of Heuvelton, and Health, chaired by Senator Kemp Hannon.
Sen. Ritchie?s interest in the issue was inspired by a the death last year 4-year-old Oswego County girl, the third fatality in three years caused by the mosquito borne virus. Oswego County is at the southern end of Ritchie?s 48th Senate District, which includes western St. Lawrence County and Jefferson County...
State lawmakers issue report on outbreaks of potentially fatal eastern equine encephalitis
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 6:19 am
Recent summer outbreaks of the potentially fatal disease eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, spurred state lawmakers to examine the problem in New York, and they have issued their report.
The 93-page document, including 13 specific recommendations to improve the state and local response to the virus, is the result of a roundtable last fall, sponsored by the Senate Committees on Agriculture, chaired by Senator Patty Ritchie of Heuvelton, and Health, chaired by Senator Kemp Hannon.
Sen. Ritchie?s interest in the issue was inspired by a the death last year 4-year-old Oswego County girl, the third fatality in three years caused by the mosquito borne virus. Oswego County is at the southern end of Ritchie?s 48th Senate District, which includes western St. Lawrence County and Jefferson County...