Travel-Related Fever Due to an Emerging Infection

1. What are this patient’s most striking clinical and laboratory findings? 2. What should be considered when evaluating a patient with travel-related fever? 3. How do you explain this patient’s most striking clinical and laboratory findings? 4. What additional laboratory tests should be ordered and why? 5. What is the patient’s most likely diagnosis? 6. Omitting dengue fever, what is the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and pathogenesis of the other condition that may have caused this patient’s travel-related illness? 7. What is an appropriate treatment and outcome for this patient? 8. Why should the United States be concerned about this relatively new pathogen?