Dengue Fever

He was believed to have dengue fever. Most popularly known as breakbone fever.

However tests shown it was just an ordinary fever.

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Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus carried by mosquitoes.. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

The causative agent of Dengue Fever (also known as the Devil's Crunch or Breakbone Fever) is the Dengue Fever Virus (DENV), a member of the Flaviviridae family and the Flavivirusspecies. However, there are four serotypes of the Dengue fever virus, aptly named DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4 and within these serotypes there are clades and strains that are inherently different in nature. However, as a conclusion, one would say the DENV virus is the agent of Dengue Fever.