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Although case numbers have historically been low, outbreaks have been increasing in frequency and scale since the 2000\u2009s. It is critical to investigate EEEV evolutionary patterns, especially within human hosts, to understand patterns of emergence, host adaptation, and within-host evolution. To this end, we obtained formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue blocks from discrete brain regions from five contemporary (2004\u20132020) patients from Massachusetts, confirmed the presence of EEEV RNA by in situ hybridization (ISH) staining, and sequenced viral genomes. We additionally sequenced RNA from scrapings of historical slides made from brain sections of a patient in the first documented EEE outbreak in humans in 1938. ISH staining revealed the presence of RNA in all contemporary samples, and quantification loosely correlated with the proportion of EEEV reads in samples. Consensus EEEV sequences were generated for all six patients, including the sample from 1938; phylogenetic analysis using additional publicly available sequences revealed clustering of each study sample with like sequences from a similar region, whereas an intrahost comparison of consensus sequences between discrete brain regions revealed minimal changes. Intrahost single nucleotide variant (iSNV) analysis of four samples from two patients revealed the presence of tightly compartmentalized, mostly nonsynonymous iSNVs. 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