Dengue Fever By: Veroniqua Sanchez & Isaiah Lopez 1B
Dec 17, 2015
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.
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