1) She was told by a Monroe County Health Department nurse that this was most certainly the second variety (or strain-- there are four) of dengue fever to which she'd been exposed; otherwise she, too, probably woould have been asymptomatic like most of her fellow Key West "victims;"
2) She was told by Dr. Whiteside that she in fact IS immune from the one or two varieties to which she's been exposed; however, she has to be careful about where she travels from now on because if she is exposed to one of the varieties that she hasn't yet had it could kill her.
Friends, to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
