Successful finance manager, 27, left paralysed after she was bitten by TICK while walking in woods
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A high-flying businesswoman was left completely paralysed after she was bitten by a TICK during a forest walk.
Anastasia Shiryaeva, 27, from Novosibirsk, Russia, led an active and happy life until she suffered tick-borne encephalitis back in 2013.
The successful finance manager was hiking in a pine wood with a female friend when she started itching and realised she had been bitten.
Knowing the dangers, she went to a clinic and had it removed by a doctor - but was soon seriously ill in a coma.
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But that evening, her temperature rose to 40C before she was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with encephalitis.
Ms Shiryaeva, who at first thought she had an "ordinary cold", spent a month in a coma and when she woke up she could only move two fingers on one of her hands.
But she was determined to do what she could to regain her health and so she decided to start making bracelets and toys with her good fingers.
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And she sells the products she makes to help meet the daily 2,000 ruble (£25) cost of her nursing and the physiotherapy which she hopes will one day enable her to walk again.
Ms Shiryaeva's mother and friends help her by promoting her jewellery and toys on social media, encouraging people to buy them to help pay for her care.
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral infection spread to humans by the bite of a small parasite.
Most sufferers experience flu-like symptoms but some go on to develop full encephalitis in which the brain becomes inflamed.