EEE risk level now high in two Mass. towns, state health department says [Video]

The Massachusetts Department of Health raised the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) risk level to high in Middleborough and Carver on Friday after mosquito samples collected in the area tested positive for the virus.

The positive samples were collected in Abington, Middleborough, Wareham and Whitman, the state health department said in a press release. Several other towns in the area — Bridgewater, Halifax, Plympton, Kingston, Plymouth, Wareham, Rochester and Lakeville — have a moderate EEE risk level.

Several towns near the New Hampshire border — Haverhill, Groveland, West Newbury, Merrimac, Amesbury, Newburyport and Salisbury — also currently have a moderate EEE risk level.