Multiple tests of bird-biting and mammal-biting mosquitoes with EEE, leading to the New Bedford Area’s classification of the risk being elevated to ‘critical.'
While the outbreak of EEE has been making headlines over the last couple weeks, state health officials have now detected West Nile Virus in New Bedford.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced it was raising the risk level for West Nile virus to moderate in every Massachusetts city and town.