Dengue Fever

Definition: Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever

Noun

1. An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.

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Synonyms: Dengue Fever

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Aedes mediovittatus is known to be a container breeder, and may play a role in the inter-epidemic transmission of Dengue Fever. Credit: CDC.

Primarily a disease of the tropics, Dengue Fever is caused by one of four viruses of the genus Flavivrus and is spread by Aedes aegypti, a domestic, day-biting mosquito that prefers to feed on humans. Credit: CDC.

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Health

New Zealand is free of dengue fever. (references)

In Panama and Costa Rica, the cases were classic dengue fever. (references)

During most of this time, dengue fever was considered a benign, nonfatal disease of visitors to the tropics. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

The Government of Costa Rica prohibits the importation of used tires without rims, because mosquitoes carrying yellow fever or dengue fever breed in water accumulated in rimless tires. (references)

Travel

Barbados

Barbados is experiencing a growing problem with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness. (references)

Costa Rica

Mosquitoes carrying malaria and dengue fever have been found in low-lying areas along both coasts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Japanese Kanji 

デング熱 (Denmark, Denver). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デングねつ. (various references)

Pig Latin

engueday everfay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: enfevered.

-3 letters: revenged, revenued, unreeved, veneered.

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