Dengue fever

noun

/ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvə/

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounAn acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.

Synonyms

breakbone fever dengue dandy fever zika disease west nile virus chikungunya zika fever venezuelan equine encephalitis monkey fever zika virus rift valley fever japanese encephalitis

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