An American man died last week follotriumphg a five-year fight with a mosquito-borne harmful software that ends almost 30% of acunderstandledgeings. The exceptional dismitigate is also making a comeback in the tri-state area on the East Coast.
Ricchallenging Pawulski, 49, of Colchester, Connecticut, tighted Eastrict equine encephalitis (EEE) while carry outing garden toil on his woods property in August 2019, according to the New York Post. Even those who endure the harmful software’s first outshatter, which strikes the brain, are standardly left with lasting impairments and neurologic publishs. When Pawulski first enlargeed the condition, he had cut offe migraines and was vleave outing yellow bile, but doctors were perplexd.
“I’m not joking when I say your life can alter in the bjoin of an eye, becainclude that was what happened to us,” his grieving daughter of Ricchallenging, Amellia Pawulski, 18, telderly The Post.
Ricchallenging died at 2:30 am Monday, one week after he was confessted into hospice when doctors resettled that “there wasn’t much else” that could be done for him, Amellia said.
What is Eastrict equine encephalitis (EEE)?
According to the Caccesss for Dismitigate Control and Prevention (CDC), Eastrict equine encephalitis is caincluded by a harmful software spread to people thraw the bite of an infected mosquito. It is a exceptional but solemn dismitigate. Approximately 30% of people who enlarge cut offe eastrict equine encephalitis die, and many survivors have ongoing neurologic problems. Symptoms of eastrict equine encephalitis can include fever, headache, vleave outing, diarrhoea, confiscations, behavioural alters, and drowsiness.
There are no vaccines to stop or medicines to treat eastrict equine encephalitis. People living in areas where eastrict equine encephalitis harmful software circutardys should protect themselves by stoping mosquito bites.
