I was just wondering if you had any info you could share. Chillin' girl dear Chillin', Dengue fever could indeed have been the cause of your symptoms. Dengue is common in the Caribbean islands, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. The virus is related to the yellow-fever virus, another arbovirus which used to cause major epidemics in the southern U. S. as well as in tropical countries. Many viral infections, including the flu, also cause back and muscle pain, but the bone pain seen with dengue fever is unique.
Dengue has an incubation period of five to seven days after one is bitten by an infected mosquito.
The disease usually begins abruptly with fever and headache, then back pain, muscle pains, and the bone pain. Cold symptoms, weakness, loss of appetite, vomiting, and a rash may also follow. The fever usually subsides after five to seven days, and then may pop up again after a couple of days of feeling better. This double fever used to be considered typical of dengue, but more recently doctors have realized that a single fever episode is also common. Although the weakness can persist for quite a while even after the fever and bone pain have completely cleared up, the disease seldom causes death or disability.