California boy, 13, left in grim condition after coming down with rare disease

Source: New York Post

A California boy who was once a healthy, soccer-loving teenager is now fighting to regain the use of his legs after a seemingly harmless mosquito bite triggered a devastating medical nightmare.   Joseph Vasquez, 13, of Long Beach, has been bedridden at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for three weeks after contracting West Nile virus and developing transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition that causes severe inflammation of the spinal cord, according to a GoFundMe launched by his family. The frightening ordeal began with what appeared to be ordinary mosquito bites but quickly spiraled into a life-altering medical crisis.