Mosquito

As of Oct. 22, 2019, there have been 35 confirmed cases of eastern equine encephalitis this year — a significant increase from the average of seven reported cases per year.

Infants who were born with a low birth weight for their gestational age were approximately two times more likely to have malaria infection or clinical malaria compared with infants born at a normal weight, according to research published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.