University of Georgia student suffers horrific brain bleed during spring break trip to Mexico

A University of Georgia senior suffered a horrific brain bleed after complaining of a headache during a spring break trip to Mexico.

Liza Burke was enjoying her ‘last spring break’ with a large group of friends in Cabo San Lucas when she was struck down by the brain hemorrhage on March 10.

Burke went to bed after breakfast complaining of a sore head. Her friends checked on her a few hours later, and called an ambulance when they were unable to rouse her. 

The young student was rushed to hospital, where Burke was diagnosed with Arteriovenous malformation (AVM), Fox News reported.

Liza Burke, pictured right, suffered a serious brain bleed during a spring break trip to Mexico

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The University of Georgia student has since been diagnosed with a condition called Arteriovenous malformation, and has been flown home to Florida for further treatment. 

She was rushed to a hospital and put on life support. A GoFundMe page set up to help Burke raised $130,000, with the cash used to fly her to Jacksonville in Florida, where her mom Lauren McKeithen lives, for further treatment.

Burke is said to have shown ‘promising signs’ after undergoing surgery in Mexico, with McKeithen saying her daughter had been able to squeeze her hand. 

She told Channel2: ‘We are told to take things one day at a time and not get our hopes too high, but to have plenty of hope,

According to the Mayo Clinic, AVM is a ‘tangle of blood vessels that irregularly connects arteries and veins, disrupting blood flow and oxygen circulation.’ 

Spring breakers are pictured in Florida. Many have shunned Mexico this year in the wake of a series of high-profile crimes involving American victims 

Scientists are unsure what causes the condition, but say it isn’t usually hereditary. 

People are born with the condition, although it is more likely to cause brain bleeds later in life. 

It tends to affect men more often than women.  

Jennifer Ritter, who organized a GoFundMe fundraiser for Burke, said her friend had been born with the condition, but that they’d only discovered this after she fell seriously-ill. 

Burke was one of a dwindling number of spring breakers to venture to Mexico this year, after a recent spate of frightening crimes there triggered safety fears.

Earlier this month, three men and a woman from North Carolina were abducted at gunpoint while on a trip booked so the woman could get a tummy tuck.

Two of the men were shot dead, with the third man and the woman surviving. 

They were abducted and killed by a cartel whose bosses have since disowned the men they say are behind the slayings.