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A mosquito. Boston is officially at high risk for receiving the West Nile Virus, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. COURTESY OF WILDTURKEY VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Two new cases of West Nile Virus reported in state following Boston being labeled “high risk”

Daily Free Press Staff September 17, 2021
Boston is raised to risk level "high" for the West Nile Virus, following the emergence of new cases.
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COVID-19 exacerbates Massachusetts DOC health care shortcomings

Colbi Edmonds March 11, 2021
Michael Horrell, a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts — an organization focused on protecting civil rights of people in prisons — said the pandemic has worsened the quality of health care in the state’s correctional facilities, which has “never been great.”

Boston child poverty rate rising, US census bureau data suggests

Daily Free Press Admin April 1, 2014

With more than a quarter of Boston’s families with children living in poverty, a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute found...

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