With summer now here, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) reminds residents to take recommended common-sense precautions to keep everyone, especially young children, safe this summer.

A Medford girl contracted the Powassan virus when she was less than a year old. Danielle Eisner is doing better. But she is ...

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