Health & Fitness
New Hampshire Man Who Survived EEE, 2 Other Mosquito Viruses Has Long Road To Recovery
He was in the Exeter Hospital ICU for three weeks and in a coma. "They gave me a trachea because I wasn't breathing," Joe Casey said.
October 22, 2024
KENSINGTON, NH - Every step Joe Casey takes reminds him of just how far he's come. "I'm 100% better from where I was, people are still amazed that I'm walking again," Casey said.
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At some point this summer the 55-year-old from Kensington, New Hampshire got bit by a mosquito and became deathly ill. "I fell down in my living room and kind of blacked out. My sons and my mother-in-law got me to the hospital. I was diagnosed with EEE, and they also tested for St. Louis [encephalitis] and West Nile, so I got all three," Casey said.
He was in the Exeter Hospital ICU for three weeks and in a coma. "They gave me a trachea because I wasn't breathing," Casey said.
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