Who was Robert Weymouth, Topsham man dead from rare tick-borne Powassan virus

Robert Weymouth was a racer living in Topsham
He died of the Powassan infection at 58 years old
He was hitched

Robert Weymouth of Topsham died on Sunday because of complexities from the Powassan infection, an exceptionally intriguing tick-borne contamination.

Weymouth’s companion Scott Lanpher who has known Weymouth for a very long time said – “Staggering that something like a tick can remove somebody that rapidly.”

Who was Robert Weymouth? Born in 1965, Robert Weymouth was a racer living in Topsham. For the past six years, Weymouth filled in as a driver for his companion Scott Lanpher’s organization, Scott’s Diversion.

Weymouth and Lanpher, as per Lanpher, initially met at a circuit, where their kinship likewise had its beginning. Weymouth was an energetic racer.

Weymouth was hitched.

Lanpher died on May 19, 2023 of Powassan infection. He is the third man to die of this condition.

Dr. Burglarize Smith, an irresistible illness doctor at Maine Clinical Center, says it’s an uncommon infection.

58-year-old Robert Weymouth of Topsham died Sunday from complications due to a rare tick-borne illness- the Powassan virus.

Live at 5- I’ll tell you what experts have to say about the disease and we’ll hear from a longtime friend of Weymouth.@WGME

— Aysia Reed (@AysiaWGME) May 18, 2023

It is as yet a secret to specialists. That’s what he guarantees assuming you become debilitated, there are close to nothing, if any, advance notice signs. Nonetheless, in the event that you do, you might have side effects like a temperature or a cerebral pain.

Neutralizer testing can be utilized to lay out whether an individual has been contaminated with the infection. Be that as it may, no particular treatment is accessible. Smith asserts that Weymouth’s passing is the only one he knows about in Maine this year, and that most people make due. As per him, just 1-2 percent of ticks in the state convey the infection.

That is one reason Weymouth’s demise astounded companions and family members.

Ticks can be dynamic at whatever point it’s warm sufficient external to do as such, yet they’re most dynamic in the spring, summer, and fall.

The infection killed two people, making this the third Powassan demise in the state starting around 2015. It ought to be noticed that the infection is spread to individuals through the chomp of a contaminated deer tick or woodchuck tick.