A resident of Michigan died after a mosquito bite: a virus kills every third

A healthy 64-year-old man from Michigan in just 9 days turned into a seriously ill person and died from a rare ailment caused by mosquito bites. Authorities said this was not the first case: the disease was reported not only in Michigan, but also in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. According to statistics, 33% of those infected die.

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Gregg McChesney, 64, died in August after a “nine-day illness,” his obituary said. A man from Kalamazoo County, Michigan. He died from Eastern equine encephalitis (in English, Eastern equine encephalitis, in the USA this disease is called “EEE”, “triple E” or “sleeping sickness”), writes Fox News.

“At the end of July, he was here on a farm, helping me put the docks in the pond,” says Mark McKesney's brother. “He was a perfectly healthy, happy person.” And within nine days he went from a completely healthy state to brain death. "

The man told reporters that his brother had an attack, "after which he was in the ambulance and never again got out of this state."

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A few days after the death of Gregg McChesney, doctors confirmed that he had an EEE transmitted by mosquitoes.

"How could this happen? What happened? “The first thing we thought,” admits Mark McChesney. “We just didn’t know, and the doctors were trying their best to determine what kind of disease it was and couldn’t figure it out.”

On Tuesday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services tweeted that there were an 4 case of EEE in southwestern Michigan, including 2 deadly.

“The mosquito-borne disease remains a threat, which has now resulted in 7 confirmed cases of EEE in humans in Michigan since July,” the department said in a news release.

“Michigan is currently experiencing the worst outbreak of equine encephalitis in 10 years,” said Jonay Haldane, chief medical officer and chief deputy for public health at the department. “Continuing cases of illness in humans and animals illustrate the seriousness of this disease and how important it is to take precautions against mosquito bites.”

MacChesney has a wife, a son and two grandchildren.

EEE is one of the most dangerous mosquito-transmitted diseases in the United States with a mortality rate of 33%. Symptoms include sudden fever, chills, pain in the body and joints. They can progress to severe inflammation of the brain, leading to headaches, disorientation, tremors, cramps, and paralysis.

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In some cases, the disease leads to brain damage, coma, and death.

According to the Department of Health, 9 cases of EEE in horses were confirmed, all of them died.

Rhode Island officials have confirmed the 3 EEE case among people this season. A child younger than 10 years old and an adult older than 50 years old were discharged from the hospital, nothing threatens their life. One man is dead. State communities sprayed special pesticides to kill mosquitoes that carry the disease.

In neighboring Massachusetts, officials confirmed 8 human cases of the virus. One of them was fatal.

Earlier, the discovery of the virus was reported by officials of Florida and Delaware.

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