Dengue Fever in the World
Although Dengue Fever is not very common in The United States, it is quite common in SouthEast Asia. It can come in very mild to very severe cases. At times, although rare, the fever can become deadly to the person infected.
When you are infected with the fever, you get multiple different symptoms. They mostly have to do with joint and muscle pain. You will also get a fever of around 106 and a headache. If you have a more serious case of the fever, you may vomit blood, bleed from you nose or gums or find red patches all over your body.
The easiest way to prevent this fever, is to stay hydrated by drinking a lot of water. But do NOT take anti-inflammatory drugs, they could raise the risk of bleeding, which could prove to be dangerous to your health. The fever doesn't spread from person to person, but if i mosquito bites an infected person, the mosquito is now a carrier and can spread it.
The scariest part about this disease is that there has yet to be a vaccine made for it. As well as who ever has had the disease, they can get it again. This makes the Dengue fever a very dangerous disease to get. There are few ways to handle the disease and if you treat it the wrong way, there is a good chance of it ending badly.
I remember reading or talking about Dengue fever at the beginning of the year in this Epidemic Disease class. We talked about when potholes left uncovered in the road get flooded by rain or other water, this becomes a huge nest for mosquitoes to multiply. This is one of the biggest reasons that Dengue fever is still a huge epidemic in poorer countries that can;t afford to continue to keep up maintenance. I think this is really sad, and it seems like the number of people dying from this disease could decrease drastically if we thought of more ways to keep the mosquito population down.
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