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Why is there a EEE vaccine for horses but not for humans?

2 baby carriages with netting over them to protect baby from mosquitos and the threat of easter equine encephalitis
Cummings School Professor Sam Telford, an expert on infections spread by mosquitoes and ticks, explains

Actually, there is a human vaccine for eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), but it has never been approved for public use.

Source: https://now.tufts.edu/articles/why-there-eee-vaccine-horses-not-humans