What to Know About EEE -- Brown University Dean Tunkel to Join LIVE at 2:30 Wednesday

What to Know About EEE -- Brown University Dean Tunkel to Join LIVE at 2:30 Wednesday

On Tuesday, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Rhode Island Department of Health confirmed that a second mosquito sample from Westerly’s Chapman Swamp tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).

At 2:30 p.m on Wednesday, Dr. Allan R. Tunkel, Senior Dean for Medical Education at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will join GoLocal LIVE to discuss what people should know about EEE.  GoLocal LIVE can be viewed on golocalprov.com and on GoLocalProv's Facebook page. 

Tunkel is also a professor of medicine with a specialty in infectious disease. 

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The agencies also confirmed that mosquitoes trapped in Tiverton tested positive for West Nile Virus -- which comes just days after the first human case of EEE was confirmed in West Warwick on Friday, as GoLocalProv reported. 

There have now been four EEE detections and one West Nile Virus detection in Rhode Island to date.