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Dengue fever is an infectious viral disease caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

Symptoms are sudden onset of high fever, severe headache, extreme joint pain (thus the vernacular name, bone break fever).

Note that DF is comparatively rare and rarely fatal when it does occur.

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By being bitten by a striped Aedes aegypti mosquito that has previously bitten an infected person.

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Dengue fever is are acute febrile diseases which occur in tropics. Dengue fever is a disease transmitted by a mosquito bite

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It is sometimes called bone brake fever because of the pains in the joints.

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is a virus that spread by an small mosquito that have black and white strip on it body

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dengue fever classed by dengue virus

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Is there an animal called a dengue?

Dengue fever is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito infected with one of the four dengue viruses.


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Will the person die if they get Dengue Fever?

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