Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection most commonly found in
tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world. The
disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the
Americas, the eastern Mediterranean, south-east Asia and the western
Pacific.
Dengue is also called "breakbone fever". While there is
no vaccine nor cure for dengue fever, the disease usually lasts
about two weeks and is rarely fatal. There
are
four strains of this viral
disease.
Dengue is
transmitted
from person to person by Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus.
Symptoms of dengue are a sudden high fever, severe headaches, joint and muscle pain,
and nausea. Dengue
haemorrhagic fever has more
acute symptoms.
Introduction
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection most commonly found in
tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world. The
disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries in Africa, the
Americas, the eastern Mediterranean, south-east Asia and the western
Pacific.