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Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas. It is frequently asymptomatic; if symptoms appear, ...
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]
Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s. By the late 1990s, dengue was the most important mosquito-borne disease affecting humans after malaria, with around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year. Significant outbreaks of dengue fever tend to occur every five or ...
Dengue is a viral fever spread through mosquito bites. It’s common in many tropical regions across the globe, but has recently appeared in more temperate climates. Dengue fever, once confined to ...
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In recent years, dengue fever, the Zika virus, chikungunya and malaria have been detected in states and territories such as Florida, Hawaii, Texas and Puerto Rico, according to the Centers for ...
New strains of influenza virus often originate in East Asia; in rural China the concentration of ducks, pigs, and humans in close proximity is the highest in the world. [ 200 ] The most recent pandemic occurred in 2009, but none of the last three has caused anything near the devastation seen in 1918.