State veterinary officials are warning horse owners to get their animals vaccinated after a deadly virus carried by mosquitoes killed two alpacas and sickened a horse in Dunn County in northwest Wisconsin.
The virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, was confirmed on Tuesday after blood samples were taken from the diseased animals in early July.
The virus can be transmitted by mosquitoes to horses, birds, humans, and other animals, such as alpacas.
EEE is not transmitted between animals or from an animal to a human, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
EEE has no cure and a 90 percent mortality rate. Read more:
