A Connecticut man died Monday after a five-year battle with a virus he contracted from a mosquito bite, cable outlet News 12 Connecticut reported.
Richard Pawulski, 49, succumbed to Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare brain-infecting virus with potential lifelong complications, including seizures and paralysis, for its survivors, according to Harvard Medical School.
Roughly 30 percent of EEE cases are deadly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Such a virus was probably the last thing the Pawulskis, like any family, would have expected to face.
“I’m not joking when I say your life can change in the blink of an eye, because that was what happened to us,” his daughter, Amellia Pawulski, 18, told the New York Post.
The ordeal began in August
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