Doing HW while sharing a story...

Few days ago I had the oportunity to read an amazing article about "dengue fever" made by a reporter from CNN that was doing an investigation in South America. some years ago I lost a family member due to this Virus, preventing and being ready sometimes makes all difference;
Oct 12th 1990, I was about 16 years old, and at that time I was living in Bolivia. I clearly remember that date until today, because it was the Columbus Day celebration in my country. My family had planned a trip for this holiday, since there was no school, and my parents got the week off. Our destination was a place called Yungas (La Paz- Bolivia) we had some family there, and also the place is well known for being a tropical paradise; as we drove towards our destination thousands of trees and green vegetation gave us a warm welcome. The temperature was hot, and the air humid, but the place was just spectacular; as we stopped and got off the car, we started noticing a lot of mosquitoes, and they were just getting all over us, local people told us that they were harmless, and not to worry about them; little did we know about what was going to happen after few days. As the days passed by, mosquitoes were a thing of every day, and our relatives living on that place did not seem to care about them, they will just ignore them, as if they were not there, even dough I could see the mosquitoes having a feast on their arms. On the fourth day in the village, we decided to go hiking since it was the last day of our vacation, and we got deep into the jungle, what a surprise!, more and bigger mosquitoes were thriving in there, we decided to continue, and the place was just gorgeous, the only drawback was that all these mosquitoes were just eating us alive. Later on that day we made our return to the village, since we needed to rest for the trip back to the city. Few days had passed since we returned, and Henry one of my brothers, suddenly started to have nausea, and started vomiting, it did not seem serious at the beginning, but later on that day, he started to feel even worse, now fever was part of his symptoms, and he just kept vomiting, we decided to take him to the hospital, and as we drove towards the hospital, Mario my uncle called us to let us know that he was also on his way from the village because Marta his daughter had the same symptoms like my brother. We arrived to the hospital and the doctors immediately seemed to know what was going on, Henry was just pale, and he had a severe rash on his legs, the doctors asked us if we had gone to the tropics, and immediately took blood samples to simply confirm their worst fears, Henry had contracted “Dengue” after a brief explanation from the doctor about what it is, and what could happen, we just looked at each other and the nightmare begun. We were in shock, and as we sat down my uncle arrived, his daughter had the same symptoms, and later on was also diagnosed with “Dengue fever”. The nightmare lasted for over two months. There were so many things that we could have done in order to prevent that, but lack of information, and little or no knowledge about these types of diseases, and what transmits them were a major factor that contributed to this problem. Dengue can kill, People should be aware at all times , especially if going out of the country, being prepared could make the difference.As with my family case Henry had a level 3, and he was able to recover in the hospital, and took him about a month, but unfortunately Marta had a level 4, “Dengue hemorrhagic” little or nothing the doctors were able to do to save her, she died few days after contracting the disease, her body could not resist the extreme pain that this disease causes, the agony lasted five days, were bleeding and constant shocks took away all the energy that she had.