I have had dengue, chikungunya, and zika. I had a weird dry cough in September-October and in hindsight a day of fever, though I attributed it to a 24-hour flu. The cough was strange. I couldn't cough up the phlegm, like it was attached. It also hurt certain back muscles to cough.

Dengue felt like death. I went through six sets of sheets in the first 48 hours, but I slept on the bathroom floor for three days because it was cool and it was that much easier to get to the toilet. Same with chickungnya. I could not tolerate the pain of the 8 steps to the toilet. I would not wish this pain on anyone.

Chickungunya is a bioweapon. It has a chemical-like energy that attacks older people worse than younger. I got it at 47. It took me four months before I could lift a coffee cup with one hand or grab it from the top with all of my fingers without intense pain. I had the occasional flare-up. Had to borrow my mom's cane at a county fair once. The flare up was instant. Also, "they" predicted a three year spread through Central American and miraculously the infected mosquitoes started with Panama and then worked their way up through Honduras over two years. Zika managed to get all of South and Central America in two years, even though only females can transmit, they need to bite a carrier and then a non-infected person. They also only travel about 400 s.f. Funny how that happens.