This is exactly right.

My name is Alex Trio and I am an assistant professor at Gettysburg College.

I'm a professor of animal behavior and tropical biology.

I got diagnosed with Dengue in the summer of 2016.

I do a lot of field work and I work in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Our work is to set up speakers and playbacks that have frog calls to attract predators

and parasites of these frogs.

We attract bats and we attract these very small midges.

So most of our work during the summer at least is in the field all across different field

sites in Panama.

I was doing this work with some of my students in 2016.

I first started feeling very tired but I thought that it was just because I wasn't sleepy

well because I had a young baby and I was working at my.

And one of the days I was so tired that my husband recalls midges like kind of collapsing

on the trail going to one of the sites where we had our speakers and he noticed that.

I just felt well you know one of those days where I did some tired.

And we kind of let that go.

And then a couple of days later I started feeling much more sick.

I got a very small fever.

I don't really get fever.

And I think that that was one of the reasons why it took me so long to realize I had

the need or I had something else than a cold.

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