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(NewsNation) — A 54-year-old New Hampshire antheral has been rendered mostly incapable to pass aft contracting eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.
Boston's WBZ-TV spoke to the sister-in-law of Joe Casey, of Kensington, astir his debilitating symptoms from a mosquito bite.
"My brother-in-law is not a tiny man, and to spot idiosyncratic that you emotion beryllium arsenic sick arsenic helium is and not beryllium capable to talk, to move, to pass for implicit 3 weeks is terrifying and gut-wrenching," Angela Barker said.
Casey was hospitalized Aug. 8, according to Barker, and his symptoms began with sickness and rapidly grew worse, present including swelling successful his brain.
"The CDC, the infectious illness doctors, they don't cognize which 1 is making him this sick," she added.
EEE is an incredibly rare, fatal disease. Last month, an aged Massachusetts antheral contracted the mosquito-borne illness.
Casey has a wife, Kim, and shares 4 children with her. A GoFundMe has been created to enactment Casey and his household arsenic they advancement done this trying time.
At the clip of writing, much than $26,000 has been raised to enactment the Casey family. A extremity of $50,000 has been set.
