Mosquitoes were caught in possession of a deadly brain virus in Florida

Orange County, Florida has just issued a public notice warning the Department of Health that the Department of Health had discovered signs of rare brain infection, Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEV), In the region.

VEEE is a particularly rare infection – it tends to spread into marshy and isolated areas, far from human civilization. But when the disease really strikes, it can be serious: Gizmodo reports that the bite of an infected mosquito can cause severe and fatal brain swelling within a few days.

Health department officials have discovered the EEEV virus in a group of sentinel chickens, which local governments use to monitor and track infectious diseases, according to the warning, which includes a list of steps that people can take to prevent the growth of mosquito populations.

If the sentinel chickens start to bite, it means that human infections could follow closely, according to Gizmodo.

Unfortunately, mosquito-borne diseases are likely to spread further in human-populated areas as our planet continues to warm up in the face of climate change.

Although EEEV is rare and human infections that cause dangerous symptoms are even more so, scientists have not yet found a vaccine or treatment for the disease, posing a problem for our future more hot.

This article was originally published by Futurism. Read the original article.