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Mosquito bite leaves woman paralysed

A woman bitten by a mosquito while on holiday in Australia was left paralysed from the neck down.

Natasha Porter was confined to a wheelchair for four months and was unable to move anything below her neck for three weeks after suffering the bite.

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