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The Margin Published: June 11, 2020 at 3:16 p.m. ET A report about growing outbreaks of EEE virus, or Eastern equine encephalitis, has gone viral Mosquito bites spread various diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. nechaev-kon/iStock Turns out, murder hornets aren’t the killer insects to worry about this summer. Mosquitoes are…

Mayo Clinic and corporate partners on Thursday unveiled a new test that will help answer the critical question of whether people develop immunity to the coronavirus that causes this infectious disease. The test is first in the world that will be broadly commercially available to identify neutralizing antibodies — the proteins produced after COVID-19 that…

Minnesota health officials announced 453 new COVID-19 confirmed cases and 13 deaths on Thursday. The pandemic has sickened 29,316 state residents and caused 1,249 fatalities due to complications from the new coronavirus. Most of the deaths have been among residents of long-term care facilities. Ten of the deaths announced Thursday were nursing home or assisted-living…

Anew analysis published in the journal Science found seven new strains of the coronavirus that have been circulating in California — and that’s according to a very small sample size. Specifically, a group of international scientists looked at samples from 36 COVID-19 patients in nine California counties and the Grand Princess cruise ship from late January to mid-March. Through…

updated on June 11, 2020 | 10:38 AM Braintree mayor recovering after testing positive for coronavirus (June 11) Since testing positive for the coronavirus late last week, Braintree Mayor Charles Kokoros has been recovering from home. After discovering he may have been exposed to COVID-19, Kokoros said in a statement, he met with the town’s…