[h=1]Longtime Bellevue teacher dies after mysterious illness[/h]
Barry Levine, a longtime Bellevue educator, died Dec. 30 at the age of 66 after a short battle with a mysterious illness he picked up abroad.
... In fact, Levine was birding in a remote area of India when he began to feel unwell.
"He was only there for three weeks and felt OK for the first two," Tillotson said. "That last week he started feeling really sick and said he might come home. I thought, 'wow, this is really serious.'"
Levine made it home but was very ill. The couple decided to let him go on Dec. 28. Levine died two days later. The cause of death is being determined by doctors and Centers for Disease Control officials.
"He thought it might have been leech bites he got, but doctors don't think that was it," Tillotson said. "The theory now is it was something from a mosquito. My sister has been working with the doctors on this, she was great."...
