DENGUE
Disease information
DENGUE
Dengue
is considered as the arboviral
infection
commonest of the world and every year are reported more of million cases of people infected.
It is an
infectious
disease
caused by
a
virus that is
transmitted
by ill people or by
a
mosquito the Aedes Aegypti and its incidence increase at time of rains, tropical and warm subtropical climate places and in people nonvaccinated who
travel
towards tropical regions.
In 1985, the Aedes mosquito albopictus, coming from also transmitting Asia and of
dengue
was
found in the United States and
now
it is in most of the states of Eastern half of the
E
.
U
. and in some areas of
Brazil
,
Mexico
, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.
It is
transmitted
by the puncture of different types from mosquitos that mainly usually prick to the people two hours after the putting of the sun and several hours before the dawn. Most of the mosquitos they are located in zones near the coasts and only some species are located in urban means of certain countries, like the United States, Polynesia, Malaysia and to
a
large extent of Asia and Africa.
The
disease
usually
has
a
period
of incubation of between 3 to 14 days, being more frequent between the 5 and 7 days.
Dengue
is not
transmitted
directly from
a
person to another one. The perforated patients to the being usually
infect
the mosquitos that become infectantes agents after feeding themselves with blood of their victim and thus they remain the rest of his life.
She is much more severe and dangerous in adults who in
children
and appear of two main forms:
dengue
classic and
dengue
hemorrágico.
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charge
on its use.
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