A man from New Hampshire has died from a rare mosquito-borne disease that’s prompted dozens of US towns to introduce curfews and closures. Steven Parry from Hempstead — a town near the southeastern border with Massachusetts — died within one week of testing positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE), a rare but serious brain-swelling disease caused by a virus that’s spread to humans and other animals through the bite of an infected mosquito. The 41-year-old medical worker, who had no previous health conditions, had been hospitalised due to severe central nervous system symptoms, th…
