A 37-year-old Queenstown resident has died in Mexico after contracting dengue fever from a mosquito bite.
Phillipa Greig, known as Pip, was house-sitting for a friend in a little village where she was bitten, her father Rob Greig said from Puerto Vallarta, in Mexico, today.
He suspected she didn't realise she had dengue fever for four or five days until neighbours, seeing she was unwell, insisted she go to the base hospital in Puerto Vallarta, 40 minutes away by boat.
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Rob said she died in hospital last Saturday, and despite having CPR applied for 40 minutes, couldn't be revived.