Introduction:
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection. It is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates, spreading rapidly in urban poor areas, suburbs and rural areas.
Dengue, dandy fever, bouquet fever, break bone fever and Aden fever.
There are four distinct serotypes of the dengue virus (DEN 1, DEN 2, DEN 3 and DEN 4). The transfer of one of them via the female mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is the main cause of dengue. In rare cases, the virus can be spread via the white-striped body Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus).
It is transmitted from one person to another by the bites of Aedes aegypti mosquitos that generally acquire the virus while feeding on the blood of an infected person. The mosquito then can transmit the virus while biting a healthy person and feeding on his blood. Patients who are already infected with the dengue virus can transmit the infection via the mosquitoes after the first symptoms appear during 4-5 days (up to 7 days).
Symptoms begin to appear 4-10 days after the bite from an infected mosquito.
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