A West Nile virus survivor shared the story of her harrowing journey with the brain infection she first thought was a stroke.

"Within a matter of days I was in the hospital and I got to the point where I couldn't walk" said Tonya Riske, a Wisconsin woman whose life "quickly" changed after a single mosquito bite.

It started with slurred speech and forgetting words, symptoms that led her and her husband to think she was possibly having a stroke, Riske said.

"Brain swelling from a little mosquito," she said. "It was just crazy how it happened, that from one day to the next my life changed that quickly."

Riske said she is on the road to recovery from the infection, through she is still dealing with lingering effects.

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