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dengue fever

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Noun1.dengue fever - an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact


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We wanted to describe characteristic clinical features (such as association of onset of visual symptoms with resolution of fever and nadir of thrombocytopenia) and propose epidemiologic explanations for the sudden rise in the incidence of observed ocular complications of dengue fever in our population.
The Stern Review presents evidence that rising sea levels threaten to displace one-sixth of the world's population; declining crop yields will affect global food supply; and deaths from heat, malnutrition and vector borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever will rise as global temperatures increase.
Sixteen people in Brownsville contracted this severe form of dengue fever late in 2005, and another nine people had a less severe form of dengue infection at that time, says physician Bryan K.
 
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