Fever

He's 26. year old.

Professional.

Single.

The fever was abrupt in onset, accompanied by headache, muscle ache & joint pains. he went to a GP and got treated for flu instead, no blood was taken and all he got was a pain-relief injection for his headache.

At day 3 of fever he checked himself into the ER with a blood pressure of 60/40. He was already in septic-shock.

Approximately 3.5 litre of fluid in ER was infused rapidly into his veins and managed to bring his BP back up.

However the blood-vessel leakage was so great that he lost most of his circulating fluids into his abdominal cavity and lungs causing him to deteriorate rapidly in the wee hour of the morning.

He was intubated and put on rapid fluids along with inotropic drug to sustain his dying vital organ's perfusion.

Less than 24 hour after he came to the ER, his body laid lifelessly in the ICU.

One of many blood investigations that were sent to the lab came back positive that morning.

It's dengue.