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dengue fever

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a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. This may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash. Recovery generally takes two to seven days. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs.

Typically, people infected with dengue virus are asymptomatic (80%) or have only mild symptoms such as an uncomplicated fever. Others have more severe illness (5%), and in a small proportion it is life-threatening. The incubation period (time between exposure and onset of symptoms) ranges from 3 to 14 days, but most often it is 4 to 7 days.

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The rash of dengue fever in the acute stage of the infection blanches when pressed
photo: By Ranjan Premaratna. Professor in medicine. Department of medicine. University of kelaniya. Sri Lanka., CC BY-SA 4.0,
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What happens happens, I thought. It could always be worse. That's what I told Sylvia when she was felled by dengue fever.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.252 (2004)
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Nevertheless, though I was feeling parched, I resisted the temptation to drink the ship’s water. I had just emerged from a bout of dengue fever—what fun that was—and was looking forward to a few weeks of health

J. Maarten Troost. Getting Stoned with Savages (2006)
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