User talk:Andy lewis9

I visited India back in mid to late October 2006, visiting Mumbai, Delhi and Agra. During the trip i got biten quite badly in my room and upon return to NZ around 8 days later I fell quite ill with severe fever symptoms, cold sweats, vomitting and headaches, etc... and from this period to around christmas I felt very lethargic.

Around one week after the main fever, I experienced severe pains in my knee joints and had to visit the local hospital for pain relief. Through this period, my local GP took blood samples and I was tested for both dengie fever and malaria, as they were aware these had been prevalent in India. Both tests returned negative results.

In early December, a work colleague and I were discussing his pending trip to India and he was a little concerned, knowing i'd had such a bad illness. His wife who is a nurse had come across news & alerts from the health authorities of the ongoing outbreak of CHIK in many parts of India and so having read into some of this info' i'm concerned that I too suffered from this.... The main reason for my email is that i'd like to have a blood test to confirm that this was actually the problem, but i'm wondering if the signs would still be visible / testable in my blood within this timeframe ???