[DougB]

Originally Posted by casita37

I had dengue a few years ago, while living in the Virgin Islands. It was NOT fun! My sister-in-law was recently in Costa Rica. She got an extremely severe case of dengue and was in the hospital for several days with a temp of 104, spiking to 105. It was really scary for a while. She's OK now, but I doubt she'll ever visit a tropical country again. I did not realize FL was such a danger zone.

I don't think a relatively small amount of cases in the last three years makes Florida "such a danger zone" 40 in Florida last year compared to 5000 in Puerto Rico. I think about 100 million world wide