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TikTok Star ‘Dancing Engineer’ Dead At 34 After Dengue Fever Fight -- As Doctors Discovered Something Much Worse

TikTok star and Peruvian engineer Jainer Moises Pinedo Vargas (known as the "Dancing Engineer") has died. The 34-year-old content creator died on Sunday,

The 34-year-old content creator died on Sunday, August 18, after a fight with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness common in tropical and subtropical regions. Healthcare network Red Prestacional Lambayeque del Seguro Social de Salud – EsSalud confirmed the death in a press release, telling the outlet: Per the Department of Health Deputy Minister, Ricardo Peña, while in the ICU, testing determined the dancer had a form of cancer known as Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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