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An Aussie traveller has opened up about how her tropical getaway to Indonesia turned into a nightmare after she was struck down with dengue fever.
Marley, a 24-year-old from Sydney, has only just returned to Australia following eight days in an Indonesian hospital after catching the illness while holidaying on the resort island of Gili Trawangan.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection that infects 100-400 million people every year in tropical and subtropical areas.
Marley said she suffered terrible fevers, had bloodshot eyes and even started to bleed on her gums.
'I had a lot of body aches, my joints were really sore which was weird. And then I was sweating but really cold, which was crazy,' the solo traveller told Yahoo News.
Sydneysider Marley, 24, caught dengue fever while holidaying on the Indonesian island Gili Trawangan
With the sickness coming in 'waves' doctors told Marley
