Pip Greig died from dengue fever. Photo / Supplied
Pip Greig died from dengue fever. Photo / Supplied
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 realiseshe 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.