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New York state Sen. Jose Peralta dies at 47; mystery infection may be cause, widow says
Something in his ear was bothering him
Evelyn Peralta on Thursday told the Daily News an autopsy is being performed — and that her husband had what initially appeared to be a minor ear irritation in the days before his death.
“We don’t know what infection it was, if it was meningitis or something,” she said. “The hospital was surprised, too. He’d had an ear infection, something in his ear that was bothering him for a while.”
Her husband still had a fever while at home Wednesday with her and their 13-year-old son. He suddenly grew disoriented, prompting her to call 911.
“I called the ambulance and they took him,” she said. “The rest he just, he took a turn for the worst.”