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A mosquito feeds at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District in Utah on July 26, 2023. Photo by Rick Bowmer/AP The Eastern equine encephalitis virus has recently returned to Vermont, with mosquitoes in Orleans, Addison and Franklin counties testing positive for the virus.  Health officials are urging Vermonters to protect themselves from mosquito bites, warning the virus — while …

An ongoing drought in Vermont is causing problems for dairy farmers who have been pushed to adapt and take costly measures to care for their cattle. Feed crops like grass, alfalfa and corn are not growing well. Farmers say that has diminished returns on their crop investments and is forcing them to spend thousands on supplemental feed for their cows. …

A dose of COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Hayley Hooks at Kinney Drugs in Essex Junction on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont Department of Health issued its vaccine recommendations on respiratory viruses Thursday and authorized Vermont pharmacies to give anyone age five and over access to a Covid-19 booster shot through a standing order. “The …

Democracy Day: Support local journalism! Give today and your gift is matched up to $5,000. Democracy Day: Support local journalism! Give today and your gift is matched up to $5,000. Since arriving in Vermont last year, Phill Gatenby has become smitten with the state’s covered bridges. He’s started a video visiting each of the state’s historic or authentic covered bridges. …

In new polling designed to gauge American perceptions of the Trump administration’s vaccine policy shifts, only one in four believe that recent recommendations are based on scientific evidence and facts, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey. Penn State / Flickr cc Led by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic, federal agencies have narrowed …

A feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito in 2014. Photo by James Gathany/U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP Vermont’s Department of Health confirmed the state’s first-known human case of the mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon virus. The disease has relatively mild symptoms, especially for young people who do not have underlying health conditions. The state began monitoring mosquitoes for Jamestown …

Cat Neville, a University of Vermont nursing student, administers a third dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Berlin on Oct. 2, 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Despite new federal limits on who can get a Covid-19 vaccine and the arrival of the cold and flu season, many Vermonters can still get a booster, though details …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in the latest Trump administration push for more federal executions. Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, is among a group of radical computer scientists focused on veganism, gender identity …

A federal grand jury in the District of Vermont returned a four-count superseding indictment today charging Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, with the murder of a Border Patrol agent, the assault of two additional agents with a deadly weapon, and related firearms offenses.  “As alleged, this defendant shot and killed a United States Border Patrol Agent while he was performing …