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Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever - Hong Kong: Medi-vision, 2004 - 45 minutes - DVD

Programme 46

Dengue is caused by four strains of a RNA flavivirus, transmitted by the daytime biting Aedes mosquito, and is primarily a disease of the tropics and subtropics. Thought for long to be a benign infection, the past 50 years has seen a global explosion in Dengue and its complications. Increasing urbanization, crowding and travel mean that we now have a pandemic; furthermore dengue is now considered by WHO to be a serious disease of global...


Tropical medicine
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