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[1] [2] Mosquito Awareness Week is observed annually in late June. [3] [4] A separate Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week (CARPA) is held earlier in the year, typically in April or May. [5] Mosquito Awareness Week raises awareness of diseases spread by mosquitoes, including dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, and malaria. It aims to ...
Awareness is a 2023 Spanish-American science-fiction action thriller film directed by Daniel Benmayor , who also co-wrote the screenplay with Iván Ledesma, and Manuel Burque. It stars Carlos Scholz alongside María Pedraza , Pedro Alonso , Lela Loren , and Óscar Jaenada .
A Dengue fever outbreak in the Indian state of Kerala in May and June 2017 had caused 6808 confirmed infections and 13 deaths by June 16. [102] In Sri Lanka, there were 180,000 reported cases in 2017. [103] The majority of cases being reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 20 week of ...
Texas public health officials announced on Monday that the state's first locally acquired case of dengue virus of the year was reported in Cameron County. There have been 106 travel-associated ...
Most people recover within a week or so. In about 5% of cases, symptoms worsen and can become life-threatening. This is called severe dengue (formerly called dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome). [21] [23] Severe dengue can lead to shock, internal bleeding, organ failure and even death. [24]
Dengue is a Flaviviridae virus, with five genetic types. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Here is the virus drawn as a 3-dimensional model of the envelope protein. [ 10 ] Dengue is in the same family as other well known viruses carried by mosquitoes that cause tropical diseases, such as yellow fever , West Nile , and Zika virus .
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Dengue virus (DENV) is the cause of dengue fever.It is a mosquito-borne, single positive-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae; genus Flavivirus. [1] [2] Four serotypes of the virus have been found, and a reported fifth has yet to be confirmed, [3] [4] [5] all of which can cause the full spectrum of disease. [1]