Officials recently reported the twelfth human case of West Nile virus in Massachusetts.
The Department of Public Health said the patient is a man in his 50s exposed in an area of Essex County.
Seven communities including Beverly, Danvers, Peabody, and Salem are now at moderate risk for the virus.
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