My brother got it 4 times
Worse than me :P
Thing is we didn't have any stagnant water in our house. I think
it's coz of our neighbours :X
But it's really scary lor, coz he was bleeding non-stop from his
nose. Blood was just pouring out like a river. My mum was freaking
then
Your brother is really lucky to be alive! I took care of a
patient in the ICU, he came in to us comatose and he had
disseminated intra-vascular bleeding manifested by small red spots
all over his body. He was totally non-responsive to any
stimulii. Bloodwork showed elevated hemorrhaging with darn
low platelet count! I was preparing him for an Emergency
Operation when a doc came and stopped everything - the poor man had
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and it was too late to do anything for
him. 
He was pronounced
brain dead.
His wife couldn't take it because just that morning, they were
enjoying breakfast with their two young kids at McD's. Then
at about 9:30am, he collapsed, ambulance came at about 9:45am, and
by the time he reached my ICU at 10:10am, it was already too
late.
They had apparently gone to Thailand for a holiday and he
returned home feeling flu-like symptoms for almost an entire
week. He finally succumbed to the disease, leaving behind a
very stunned wife and two young children who were too young to
understand it all. I think the eldest child was only in
Primary 2 whilst the younger one was in kindergarten.
I felt
sooooo sad for the family and stayed behind to console the wife...
and was promptly reprimanded by my senior for 'wasting time' and
not 'organising my time properly'! 
