Serious question: What happens next spring? Does Connecticut continue to be at higher risk for EEE? Does the threat die off with the current batch of live mosquitoes?
My understanding is that the current EEE 'epdidemic' will end with its host mosquitoes when they die with the first hard frost. There's a random chance that the virus could live-on if mosquites manage to fine shelter and food (people, animals) in a barn or similar structure over the winter; but, it's unlikley. The issue is that EEE will live through the winter down south (SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, etc.) and then it will find a way back North next Summer when infected animilas and people from those locations travel North and are subsequently bitten by a mosquito that then carries it to new people. It's why EEE typically does not show-up in the Northeast until the late Summer and early Fall because it takes time for that process to carry out.
