The Foreign Office has issued a stark warning about a rampant infection that has seen a significant surge in the past year among holidaymakers returning to the UK. According to a new report from the Travel Health and International Health Regulations team in the Clinical and Emerging Infections Directorate, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), people are contracting Dengue while on holiday.

The disease is escalating in Europe with cases reported in Spain, Italy, France, Greece and other parts of…