Write a short note on Dengue Fever?
Dengue fever, also known as break bone fever, is a mosquito-borne infection that causes a severe flu-like illness.
- Patients who develop the more serious forms of dengue fever usually need to be hospitalized.
- Dengue can vary from mild to severe; the more severe forms include dengue shock syndrome and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
- Approximately 2.5 billion people, or two-fifths of the world's population, are now at risk from dengue.
- 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 purely concerned with relief of the symptoms.
- The prevention of dengue fever requires control or eradication of the mosquitoes carrying the virus that causes dengue.
- There is currently no vaccine available for dengue fever.
- Dengue infection rates among people who have not been previously exposed to the virus are commonly 40% to 50% during epidemics, but may sometimes reach 80% to 90%.
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian countries.
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