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Connecticut dad dies from rare mosquito-borne virus he caught in his own backyard – and cases are on the rise
NY Post ^ | 10/16/2024 | Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 10/16/2024 11:21:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard.

Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a fatal disease that caused its first New York state death in nearly a decade last month — marking a startling resurgence that’s left health officials baffled.

The mosquito-borne illness is a rare but “severe” disease that targets the brain, causing rapid physical deterioration and lifelong disabilities — if it doesn’t kill you first.

“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 grieving daughter Amellia Pawulski, 18, told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: backyard; connecticut; eee; infectious; mosquito; mosquitoborne; virus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Eastern Equine Encephalitis was around when I lived in New England, late 1970s, and a few people died of it then.


21 posted on 10/16/2024 12:06:48 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is without question a terrible thing for this man and his family.

But it is “extremely rare” and this was the “first death in almost a decade” in a state with a population of 3.6 million.
How is that a “startling resurgence?”


22 posted on 10/16/2024 12:10:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Steve Bannon is a political prisoner. Free Steve Bannon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

EEE has been a problem in the states for decades.

It’s been an issue around the Cicero Swamp near Syracuse, NY going back that far. They’ve been testing for and spraying for it that whole time.


23 posted on 10/16/2024 12:18:20 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The evacuated bio-weapon research lab on Plum Island, the suspected source of Lyme disease, is just across Long Island Sound from there.


24 posted on 10/16/2024 12:27:32 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kamala bought it.


25 posted on 10/16/2024 12:28:22 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now that people have a compromised immune system, things that have been around for a long time will start affecting them.


26 posted on 10/16/2024 12:52:29 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I want to know if he was jabbed.


27 posted on 10/16/2024 1:03:38 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Additionally:

Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE): Why you need to vaccinate your horse every 6 months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuhUCOf-RXw

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this might lead.

And, unrelated

https://www.cpr.org/2019/02/20/scientists-release-controversial-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-in-high-security-lab/

However, think about it: They have the logistics in place to do it.


28 posted on 10/16/2024 1:07:49 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: fella

It’s not likely that the Plum Island lab was there in the early 1800s, when this disease was first identified in the US.


29 posted on 10/16/2024 1:18:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: z3n
DEEET is your friend.

And DDT spraying was effective for ticks and mosquitos

30 posted on 10/16/2024 1:23:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Dr. Sivana
tick-borne Lyme disease

Can also be debilitating

31 posted on 10/16/2024 1:24:14 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
Can also be debilitating

Yes, it was at first. I was lucky to get a doctor who gave the correct diagnosis and knocked it out with $20 of anti-biotics.

I know of doctors in Connecticut who avoided diagnosing Lyme until it was too late. Stupid.
32 posted on 10/16/2024 3:10:15 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: z3n

There’s definitely a mosquito problem in CT. I’ve never seen so many mosquitoes in my life. It’s normal to deal with them late in the afternoon but this year they are out in the middle of the day. I was outside a few days ago around noon and they were all over the place on a sunny day. It got so bad I had to go inside to get away from them.


33 posted on 10/16/2024 4:34:39 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: Jamestown1630

Until mRNA bio-weapons were developed by enhansing existing diseases.


34 posted on 10/16/2024 6:52:11 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: fella

I have no idea what you mean.

I don’t see any evidence of ‘enhancements’ of EEE. It’s been about the same and as infrequent all of my life. It has affected horses much more than humans, and humans very rarely.


35 posted on 10/16/2024 6:59:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: V_TWIN

Not just a vax but a mandatory vax, with hide under the bed, refuse to go outside, hate your neighbors, hate your kids, carry around mandatory paperwork…. I think it’s called the Gas_Dr_dugway_duke protocol. Or the the knee pad Azz_hole_Fauci protocol. Both are equal in science, reason and outcome.


36 posted on 10/16/2024 7:34:00 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Screw Ukraine, screw Russia, screw the west. The only thing that matters is money at this point. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27; z3n; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; ...
Infectious Disease ping - Eastern Equine Encephalitis fatality after a five year fight
Mosquitoes are the vector

z3n :" “...Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)...”
"DEEET is your friend."

ChicagoConservative27 :"A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard."

"Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a fatal disease
that caused its first New York state death in nearly a decade last month
— marking a startling resurgence that’s left health officials baffled."

The mosquito-borne illness is a rare but “severe” disease that targets the brain, causing rapid physical deterioration and lifelong disabilities
— if it doesn’t kill you first."

37 posted on 10/17/2024 5:43:48 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Meanwhile, exponentially more Americans will be killed by illegal aliens than skeeters.


38 posted on 10/17/2024 5:57:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It looks like I really need to break the habit of feeding all of the neighborhood mosquitos.

Every time I go out to feed them, I think about the diseases that mosquitos carry—various forms of encephalitis, West Nile virus, and (in rare cases) malaria. They probably carry other disease, as well.

The problem is that DEET is almost as repelling to me as it is to the mosquitos.


39 posted on 10/19/2024 8:52:30 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: GMThrust

Other than those taking immune suppressors to deal with autoimmune disease, who exactly is walking around with compromised immune systems? AIDS and cancer patients would qualify but who else?


40 posted on 10/20/2024 8:16:20 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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