First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: Bracing for bug-borne ills

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Sophia Garabedian, 6, of Sudbury, Mass., who contracted Eastern Equine Encephalitis in 2019, stands for a photograph on a playground, Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Sudbury. As the coronavirus pandemic subsides for now in the hard hit Northeast, public health officials in the region are bracing for another mysterious virus: Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)