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Question
How is Dengue fever spread? What are the symptoms?
Answer in Brief
Solution
Dengue is a viral disease spread by Aedes female mosquitoes that bite during the daytime.
They breed in stagnant water found in containers and old tires.
Symptoms:
- Symptoms may include high fever, severe headache, muscle, and joint pain, and a characteristic skin rash.
- Symptoms of dengue fever typically begin three to fourteen days after infection.
- Deficiency of platelets in the blood.
- Intense stomach pain.
- Regular vomiting with blood.
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