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EEE Spraying Tonight / Beware
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August 22, 2006
EEE spray plan set
By DAVID KIBBE
TIMES BOSTON BUREAU
State health officials yesterday announced a second aerial spraying over a dramatically expanded area of Southeastern Massachusetts after mosquito collections continued to show an alarming rate of Eastern equine encephalitis.
The pesticide spraying, tentatively set to begin tonight, weather permitting, will cover 425,000 acres, including large portions of Plymouth and Bristol counties, and a smaller part of Norfolk county.
Dr. Al DeMaria, the chief medical officer at the Department of Public Health, said the discovery of EEE in a sample of mosquitoes collected in Dennis on Aug. 14 was ''isolated'' and did not warrant aerial spraying on Cape Cod.
The mosquitoes that tested positive on the Cape were bird-biting, not mammal-biting. It was the first time EEE had been detected on the Cape.
The spraying area on the south coast includes Carver, Middleborough, Lakeville, Freetown, Fall River, New Bedford, Acushnet, Rochester, and parts of Dartmouth and Fairhaven.
To date, two people in the state have been diagnosed with EEE. Both are hospitalized in critical condition.
(Published: August 22, 2006)
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