BRANDON (AP) - The Vermont Health Department plans to start aerial spraying to control mosquitoes in parts of Rutland and Addison counties where two people were sickened, and one person died, from the state's first cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and potentially fatal brain infection spread by mosquitoes.

Officials say aerial spraying near Brandon and Whiting using a pesticide will start Thursday night if weather conditions are favorable.

Ground spraying to control mosquitoes by the Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen Mosquito District has already started.

Eighty-seven-year-old Richard Hollis Breen of Brandon died Tuesday of EEE. The Health Department also says a Chittenden County adult has been hospitalized with West Nile virus, the state's first human case of the disease, which is also spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.

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