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Facts about Dengue

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Outbreaks resembling dengue fever have been reported throughout history (Gubler 1998).

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Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s.

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Emerging evidence suggests that mycophenolic acid and ribavirin inhibit dengue replication.

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Significant outbreaks of dengue fever tend to occur every five or six months.

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The severe pain associated with dengue fever has lead to it also being called break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease.

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Patients with dengue can pass on the infection only through mosquitoes or blood products and only while they are still febrile (have a fever).

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Dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS) is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children in several south-east Asian nations (Kouri et al.

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Patients may receive paracetamol preparations to deal with these symptoms if dengue is suspected (CDC 2007).

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Dengue shock syndrome is defined as dengue hemorrhagic fever plus weak rapid pulse, narrow pulse pressure (less than 20 mm Hg), and cold, clammy skin and restlessness.

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Dengue is found in Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands, Africa, Middle East, and east Asia.

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The classic dengue fever lasts about six to seven days, with a smaller peak of fever at the trailing end of the disease (the so-called "biphasic pattern").

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A small proportion of DHF cases lead to dengue shock syndrome (DSS) which has a high mortality rate.

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Primary prevention of dengue mainly resides in mosquito control.

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The diagnosis of dengue is usually made clinically.

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Uncomplicated dengue fever has an excellent prognosis, with almost 100 percent of patients recovering fully.

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Dengue fever is caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae (CDC 2008).

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World Health Organization estimates that there may be 50 million cases of dengue infection worldwide each year (WHO 2008).

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Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) is largely a complication of DHF (Pham et al.

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Halstead in the 1970s, that dengue hemorrhagic fever is more likely to occur in patients who have secondary infections by serotypes different from the primary infection.

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The dengue type of virus is known as an arbovirus, arthropod-borne virus, because it is transmitted by mosquitoes, a type of arthropod.

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The classic dengue symptoms are known as the '"dengue triad": fever, rash, and headache (Carson-DeWitt 2004).

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By the late 1990s, dengue was the most important mosquito-borne disease affecting humans after malaria, there being around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year.

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Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a more severe illness that occurs when someone is reinfected with the virus after having recovered from an earlier incidence of dengue fever and the immune system overreacts (Carson-DeWitt 2004).

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