OLD LYME — We received an anonymous text this afternoon at 2:54 p.m. advising that the Connecticut Health Department had announced that the second person in the state, who tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), has died. This unidentified victim is a resident of Old Lyme.
TheDay.com published an article this afternoon at 3:48 p.m. confirming the death titled, Old Lyme resident is second in state to die of EEE virus.
Read this article, State Announces Old Lyme Resident Tests Positive for EEE, Confirms Death of East Lyme Resident Diagnosed with EEE, published on LymeLine.com Sept. 21, which contains more information about both the death of the first state resident with EEE from East Lyme, and the disease itself and how to take precautions against it.