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'I had a hangover while backpacking in Indonesia - but it turned out to be typhoid'

2025-08-17 164 Dailymotion

A Yorkshire backpacker has told how how her post-party hangover turned out to be a deadly infection which kills over 100,000 people every year.

Alysha Pyrgotis was left vomiting and with 'extreme diarrhoea' after catching typhoid on the remote Indonesian party island of Gili Trawangan in June this year.