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Early Freeze Ends Worries about West Nile, EEE

The temperature early Monday dipped below freezing in Boston. Not great news for people, or their tomato plants. But even worse news for insects that bite.

All over Massachusetts, mosquitoes died or went into hiding, and thus the burst of cold weather put an early end to West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis this year.