Dengue Fever By: Veroniqua Sanchez & Isaiah Lopez 1B
Dengue Fever Dengue fever is a disease caused by a family of viruses that are transmitted by mosquitoes. The symptoms are headaches, fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and joint pain, swollen glands, and rash.
Contagious and Curable? It isn’t contagious due to the fact that its passed from mosquitos infecting your blood. Because dengue fever is caused by a virus, there is no specific medicine or antibiotics to treat the disease.
Dengue Fever Dengue fever is also know as DHF- Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Hemorrhagic- bleeding Circulatory collapse- shock- one of the symptoms to DHF Petechiae- small red or purple splotches or blisters under the skin
Real Life Experience Rihanna’s father- Ronald Fenty had gotten hospitalized for Dengue Fever and nearly had died from it. He had gotten it while visiting his daughter at her home in Barbados. -“It was horrible. I thought I was going to die.” he said to The Sun newspaper.
DENGUE FEVER
Quiz 1. How is Dengue Fever passed? 2. Who passes Dengue Fever? 3. What is one symptom of Dengue Fever? 4. Is there a cure for Dengue Fever? 5. In the slide show who had Dengue Fever?
Answers 1. Threw your blood. 2. Mosquitoes 3. headaches, fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and joint pain, swollen glands, and rash. 4. No 5. Rihanna’s father- Ronald Fenty
Resources Medicine Net. Com CDC- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention