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dengue fever
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Dengue fever
Dengue fever
is a
mosquito-borne
tropical disease
caused by the
dengue virus
. Symptoms typically begin three to foreteen days after infection. This may include a high
fever
,
headache
, vomiting,
muscle
and
joint pains
, and a characteristic
skin rash
. Recovery generally takes less than two to seven days. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into the life-threatening
dengue hemorrhagic fever
, resulting in
bleeding
,
low levels of blood platelets
and
blood plasma
leakage, or into
dengue shock syndrome
, where
dangerously low blood pressure
occurs.
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