A tourist who thought she just had a "high fever" discovered she had come down with a potentially fatal tropical virus . Rosemarie Moore, 28, was on an expedition in Suriname, South America , searching for anacondas for work in April 2024 when she felt unwell. On day four of her 10-day trek, Rosemarie started feeling pain in both eyes - but initially thought it was a headache.
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Doctors took her blood and told her she had dengue fever - a viral infection spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. They said she was coming to the end of the infection - so there was nothing they could do. Rosemarie, an ecologist from West Palm Beach, Florida , US, said: "My first symptom was eye pain.
"Every time I moved my eyes left or right, they felt like they were being pulled out of my head. "The eye pain stayed for five days. I started coming down with a high fever and exhaustion, but we were hiking.
"After three days, I knew it was someth.