A student who caught dengue fever on holiday became so poorly that her friend almost ‘called a priest’ after she was acting ‘possessed’ while ill in bed. After spending two weeks in Bali, Indonesia, Cara Pyper, 22, suddenly began to feel ‘deathly unwell’ as if she’d been ‘hit by a bus’. Pyper developed a range of symptoms, including a high temperature, headaches, muscle pain and extreme fatigue which are all common symptoms of dengue.
Her friend Abbi Whorriskey took a video of Cara while she was unwell and she can be seen waving her arms about looking 'possessed' as if she was swatting flies while asleep. Cara Pyper caught dengue fever while on holiday in Bali, Indonesia (Image: Kennedy News) Abbi, also 22, even joked she thought she might need to 'phone a priest' after seeing her friend's 'scary' movements while sleeping. Cara didn’t know she had dengue fever at the time and brushed her symptoms off, thinking it was just a hangover.
She even pushed herself to continue sight-seeing. Cara, from Edinburgh, Scotland said: "It was hell at the time. I felt deathly unwell.
"About two weeks in to our holiday I literally just got overcome with this random sickness. I literally felt like I had been hit by a bus. My whole body just felt heavy and sore.
"I thought I was just run down because of the time difference or that it was maybe from drinking. I thought it was maybe just a hangover. "I was in shock when I woke up and saw the video Abbi took.
It does scare me. I.
