GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) – A 4-year-old boy has survived a monthlong battle with Eastern equine encephalitis, but his family says recovery may take a lifetime.

Christopher Burke is one of seven New Hampshire residents to contract the often deadly mosquito-borne illness. Two people have died, a 20-year-old Newton woman and an 80-year-old Hooksett man.

Burke’s parents say their son was hospitalized with seizures Aug. 16 and it took doctors 10 days to diagnose him. But because there is no cure for the disease, little could be done for him.

The Goffstown boy was hospitalized for nearly 30 days, and now is at a Boston rehabilitation center. His father says the boy remains on anti-seizure medicine and likely will come home in a wheelchair.