Dengue

An acute, infectious, but not serious disease usually found only in the tropics, although epidemics have occurred in other parts of the world. Dengue is also known as dengue fever and breakbone lever, because it sometimes causes pains around the joints.

It is caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Culex. The symptoms, which resemble those of INFLUENZA, usually appear for two to (bur days, disappear for about a day and then return together with a rash. Two or tlirec davs later, the temperature falls and recovery begins.

Worms

A great division of the animal kingdom, containing creatures which have no appendages. Many of them can be parasites in the bodies of man and animals. Flatworms or flukes invade the hollow organs of the body such as the intestine, bile ducts and lungs; TAPEWORMS and several kinds of ROUNDWORMS inhabit the intestine; and a specialised group of roundworms live in the tissue spaces and lymph system, causing various kinds of FILARIASIS.

Most worms are transmitted either by eating or drinking their eggs, or, as in the case of filarial worms, through the bites of bloodsucking insects.

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