iheart – A Connecticut father died Monday (October 14) from complications of an infected mosquito bite that occurred five years prior in his own backyard, the New York Post reports.
Richard Pawuski, 49, of Colchester, suffered from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare but “severe” disease that targets the brain and results in rapid physical deterioration if not quickly fatal.
Pawuski’s death followed another EEE death in September, which was the first from the state of New York in nearly a decade.
Pawuski was reported to have died at 2:30 a.m., one week after being admitted into a hospice, at which point doctors said “there wasn’t much else” that could have been done for him, his daughter, Amellia, 18, told the New York Post.
The father ultimately died from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an untreatable staph infection, combined with other ailments brought on by EEE, including a bacterial infection in his heart, a deteriorated liver and traumatic brain injury.
Pawuski was clearing brush in his wooded backyard in August 2019 when he was bitten by the infected mosquito …
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