And Now, Something New To Worry About: Dengue Fever

By Pamela Ferdinand | May 6, 2007 for The Washington Post

One week I was lounging in paradise, snorkeling past giant clams and midnight blue starfish and eating freshly picked passion fruit and mangoes on a South Pacific beach with my fiance. The next week I lay in torment at my home in Cambridge, Mass., alternately suffering chills and sweats with excruciating joint pain, bleeding under the skin and severe dehydration that landed me in the hospital for nearly a week. Read the full article >