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The shattered family of a Perth man fear a mystery illness he contracted on a dream cruise holiday could kill him before he’s flown back to Australia this weekend.
Dave Crocos, 68, was celebrating his semi-retirement with his wife Jo on the cruise of a lifetime, travelling from Los Angeles, through Hawaii and the Pacific to end in Sydney.
They set off on the trip on October 8 but shortly after the ship left Hawaii, Mr Crocos’ health took a turn for the worse.
He began suffering from fever and aches and spent a week bedridden in his cabin before cruise doctors decided he needed hospital treatment.
The cruise was rushed to American Samoa where Mr Crocos was admitted to the LBJ Tropical Medicine Centre on the island of Pago Pago on October 25.
The hospital is not equipped to treat the recently retired land surveyor and for …