DENGUE
- Dengue fever is a disease
caused by a family of viruses that are transmitted by mosquitoes.
- Symptoms include severe
joint and muscle pain, swollen lymph nodes, headache, fever, exhaustion,
and rash. The presence of fever, rash, and headache (the "dengue
triad") is characteristic of dengue fever.
- Dengue is prevalent
throughout the tropics and subtropics.
- Because dengue fever is
caused by a virus, there is no specific medicine or antibiotic to treat
it. For typical dengue fever, the treatment is directed toward relief of
the symptoms (symptomatic treatment).
- The acute phase of the
illness with fever and muscle pain lasts about one to two weeks.
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever
(DHF) is a specific syndrome that tends to affect children under 10 years
of age. It causes abdominal pain, haemorrhage (bleeding), and circulatory
collapse.
- The prevention of dengue
fever requires control or eradication of the mosquitoes carrying the virus
that causes dengue.
- There is currently no vaccine to prevent dengue
fever.
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