A grieving mother whose son died of dengue fever while he was travelling with friends through Asia has spoken out following a world-wide spike in the deadly virus.
She said her son sounded 'worried' and died about a week later in hospital in Phuket, Thailand. Her son had started to feel ill when he and his pals were flying from Laos to Thailand and he sought treatment at another hospital in Pa Tong where medics thought it was 'just a flu'. He was transferred to Phuket but never recovered.
The World Health Organisation says approximately four billion people in 130 countries are at risk of dengue – a virus spread by mosquitoes found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including parts of Europe. Travel Health Pro, a subdivision of the Foreign Office, has warned that dengue has ‘spread into regions previously thought to be dengue free’.
Jayne was in the passport office in Liverpool trying to arrange for a replacement for her expired document so she could fly out to Asia when she learned the devastating news of her son's death from one of her two other sons, Mark, who had travelled to Thailand to be with Bob. Jayne, who urged travellers to visit the World Mosquito Program for more information, added: "I want people to see that we were just an ordinary family and it's hit us. You don't have to be university educated to go and travel and find yourself and to have a wonderful experience. If this happened to us, it can happen to anybody."
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