NEW: Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan has died at age 66.
Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan died Monday at the age of 66, NBC News has confirmed.
Hagan, a Democrat, served one term in the Senate from 2009 to 2015 after defeating Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008. She lost her seat in her first re-election race, in 2014, to Thom Tillis. Prior to her time in Congress, she served a decade in the North Carolina state Senate. Hagan had been diagnosed in 2016 with Powassan virus. That virus is known to cause encephalitis and is transmitted to humans by ticks. There is no cure for the virus.
According to the Associated Press, Hagan had experienced brain inflammation after being diagnosed with the virus and spent time in January 2017 at an Atlanta rehabilitation center.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
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