13. What is dengue?

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Dengue, or dengue fever, an epidemic
disease in countries (for example,
in ), and its most dangerous
is hemorrhagic dengue. It caused by
four different related viruses, the
reason it is difficult for already
infected person to immunized
against the disease. is prevalent
in tropical subtropical regions of
Asia, and South America and is
transmitted by the of the Aedes
aegypti , a diurnal mosquito.
The infection causes varied
symptoms to flu, like fever,
, myalgia (muscle pain); in
dengue high fever, with
without convulsions, and hemorrhages
occur leading to circulatory
and death. There is vaccine against
dengue since are four agent
viruses it is supposed that
severity of the disease greater when
the patient already protected against
one of virus and is by
another. The best method
is to eliminate vector mosquito.