Dengue FeverBy: Veroniqua Sanchez & Isaiah Lopez1B

Dengue FeverDengue 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 FeverDengue fever is also know as

DHF- Dengue Hemorrhagic FeverHemorrhagic- bleedingCirculatory 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 FEVERhttp://youtu.be/xuI7GX6q_7o

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. No5. Rihanna’s

father-Ronald Fenty

Resources

• Medicine Net. Com• CDC- Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention