A person in Ulster County has been hospitalized with Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said. It is the first confirmed human case of the disease recorded in the state since 2015.

An Ulster County resident has tested positive for the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus, health officials say.

There are now two confirmed and two probable cases of the mosquito borne illness and one EEE case in the state

The City of Sugar Land has confirmed the presence of West Nile Virus in the city, prompting health officials to urge residents to take precautions to reduce exposure.

Mosquito control districts around the state work summer through fall to trap mosquitoes and send them to a diagnostics lab at the LSU Vet School to be tested for West Nile virus. The majority of people who get the virus won't have any symptoms,

A New York state resident tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis – the first human case of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade. The Ulster County resident is hospitalized and state health officials said the county Department of Health is investigating the case.

Greene County Public Health announced Thursday that it was notified by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) that West Nile Virus was detected in another mosquito sample that was tested. GCPH has trapped West Nile Virus Positive mosquitoes in the city of Fairborn for the second time this summer.