dengue

(noun)

An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

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Examples of dengue in the following topics:

  • The Health of Infants and Children

    • In Asia, dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease, is a major cause of child mortality.
    • Global research teams have been working to improve methods for diagnosing and treating dengue.
    • A 2011 CDC report found that the incidence of dengue has increased worldwide in recent decades, but little is known about its incidence in Africa.

  • Development of New Vaccines

    • Continuing intensive efforts are under way to develop effective vaccines for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, leishmaniasis, and enteric diseases, among others and to adapt new technologies to improve formulation and delivery.

  • Arthropods as Vectors

    • Additional examples of mosquitoes include the Aedes mosquito which is a vector for avian malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever.

  • Classic Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

    • The family Flaviviridae include dengue, yellow fever , and two viruses in the tick-borne encephalitis group that cause VHF: Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus and Kyasanur Forest disease virus.

  • Safety in the Microbiology Laboratory

    • Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV.
    • Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic diseases.

  • Rickettsial Diseases

    • Surprisingly, the other infection reported to be likely to provide the same effect (decrease in viral load) is the virus-caused illness, dengue fever.

  • Chikungunya Fever

    • CHIKV infection causes an illness with symptoms similar to dengue fever, with an acute febrile phase of the illness lasting only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthralgic disease that affects the joints of the extremities.

  • History of Bacterial Diseases

    • Among these are two viral diseases (dengue fever and yellow fever) and three bacterial diseases (diphtheria, cholera, and bubonic plague).