dengue

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We had a few cases of dengue fever last year.

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an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

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noun

an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

Definitions

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noun

an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

Example sentences

We had a few cases of dengue fever last year.

You drink this to prevent dehydration or in the initial phase of your dengue.

We lived in Puerto Rico for five years, and a year after we came back to Indiana, one of our son's classmates died of dengue.

Of those, about 500,000 people contract severe dengue, which is a potentially life-threatening.

I can tell you i walked into a clinic and saw a doctor within minutes, ran bloodwork, got tested for dengue and yellow fever.

One of the problems with dengue is that once you've been infected with one strain, getting infected with another one is much more likely to have serious consequences.

So you should always ask: what dreadful bloodsucking beasts will replace the mosquito ?I would much rather prefer they breed a transgenic mosquito unable to spread dengue than try to wipe all mosquitoes off the face of the planet.

The "aedes aegypti" species of mosquito doesn't spread malaria, but several other debilitating diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever, etc.