7-Year-Old Girl Could Not Recognize Parents, Suffered Seizures After Mosquito Bite

7-Year-Old Girl Could Not Recognize Parents, Suffered Seizures After Mosquito Bite
A female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil in this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo. AP Photo/Andre Penner
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The mother of a young girl who contracted a rare disease that caused her to have seizures and hallucinations is warning people about the potential dangers of mosquito bites.

Holly Zehner’s 7-year-old daughter, Lauren, was eventually diagnosed with La Crosse encephalitis last year after she was bitten by the insect, and at one point she was not able to recognize her parents, reported the Mirror.