{"id":73,"date":"2025-12-10T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:25:15","slug":"man-died-from-tick-borne-virus-after-his-brain-had-blown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Man Died from Tick-Borne Virus After His \u2018Brain Had Blown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bestposz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/589890105_1394309472052923_106202937164378807_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bestposz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/589890105_1394309472052923_106202937164378807_n-720x400.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After being bitten by a tick, Kevin Boyce was admitted to the hospital in April 2024 with a severe case of Powassan virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He passed away a few weeks after the illness damaged his brain.<br>His story is now being shared by his family to warn others about ticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Massachusetts family is sharing their tragic story to alert others to a crippling tick-borne illness as the weather warms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Boyce was unintentionally bitten by a tick in April 2024. He began to have flu-like symptoms, including headaches and vomiting, which quickly worsened.&nbsp;<strong>Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being bitten by a tick, Kevin Boyce was admitted to the hospital in April 2024 with a severe case of Powassan virus. He passed away a few weeks after &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}