A former Hollyoaks star says the Zika virus might be the reason she’s been confined to a wheelchair for almost a decade.
Kelly-Marie Stewart also said this week that Zika may be to blame for a miscarriage she had.
Stewart traveled to the Dominican Republic nine years ago. Shortly after returning, she was told she had miscarried—and was also diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, losing the use of her legs.
“I went on holiday for two weeks and while there I came down with flu symptoms, I was aching all over. I put it down to picking up a bug, but I was covered from head to toe in mosquito bites—I looked like a Lion bar,” she told the Liverpool Echo.
The actress said she felt like she was 'walking on sponge.'
