Dengue Hemorrhagic Case Study

Team Case Study

Erica Ricker

Katrina Guptill

Bio 216

Kennebec Valley Community College

October 30, 2015

Case Study

Bob and his wife Jen went on a vacation recently. It was an all-inclusive Windstar cruise to the Caribbean Islands. This is Bob and Jen’s second time on a cruise to the Caribbean. On the cruise they stopped at several islands including Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Mayreau, Grenadines, Tobago Cays and Bequia. They were able to get off on some of the islands and go site seeing. Bob knew a great place to go zip lining on one of the islands that he’d been to before, so Bob and Jen went through the dense wet forests to reach their destination, where there were all kinds of weird looking bugs and a ton of mosquitos. They were covered in mosquito bites but they didn’t care because they had fun. On their way back to the ship, they decided to stop and get some local cuisine, just to try it out as part of their experience on the island.

About two days after returning home, Bob was sitting in his office at his law firm and started to feel some head and muscle aches. Bob didn’t think much of it and assumed it was just an effect of overworking that day. Early the next day Bob realized that the aching was getting much worse and he now feels nauseated and fatigued too. Thinking that this too will pass, Bob decides to tough it out. “Maybe it’s just a little stomach bug or something”, Bob thinks to himself. Later that evening when he arrives home, he tells his wife Jen how he’s been feeling, so she takes his temperature and it is slightly elevated at 101˚F. Not too concerned, she tells him to take some Tylenol and get some rest. Early the next morning, sound asleep, Jen wakes to her husband Bob grunting and groaning due to unbearable pain. Soon after, he starts vomiting and sweating profusely. This was followed by a nosebleed. Not sure what to do, she asks him what is wrong and he describes the pain as “bone breaking” throughout his body....