Features, Health and Wellness, TravelTravel Fever (the Bad Kind): What to Do When You Get Sick On VacationPosted on August 15, 2014 Just keep all your bodily fluids inside until this SUV gets to the emergency room, I tell myself while being bumped and jostled down a barely paved road in Costa Rica. Curled into a clammy, shivering ball, I thought about how differently my day had begun. A few hours earlier, I’d been happily sprawled poolside at my eco-resort, a wild and verdant retreat.