Eastern equine encephalitis is back in Rhode Island this year.
The state tested mosquitos in Chapman swamp in Westerly in late August and found some of them tested positive for the virus, as CBS Boston reported earlier this week.
Former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat who lost his Texas U.S. Senate race against Republican Ted Cruz in 2018 and his 2020 presidential bid, threw his hat behind U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III the weekend before the September 1 primary.
