GC: n

S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue (last access: 22 September 2024); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/es/index.html (last access: 22 September 2024).

N: 1. 1828, from West Indian Spanish dengue, from an African source, perhaps Swahili dinga “seizure, cramp,” form influenced by Spanish dengue “prudery” (perhaps because sufferers walk stiffly and erect due to painful joints). The disease is African, introduced to the West Indies 1827.

2. dengue, also called breakbone fever or dandy fever, acute, infectious, mosquito-borne fever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal. Besides fever, the disease is characterized by an extreme pain in and stiffness of the joints (hence the name “breakbone fever”). Complication of dengue fever can give rise to a more severe form, called dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), which is characterized by hemorrhaging blood vessels and thus bleeding from the nose, mouth, and internal tissues. Untreated DHF may result in blood vessel collapse, causing a usually fatal condition known as dengue shock syndrome. Dengue is caused by one of four viral serotypes (closely related viruses), designated DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4. These serotypes are members of the Flavivirus genus, which also contains the viruses that cause yellow fever, and can occur in any country where the carrier mosquitoes breed.

3. An acute infectious disease caused by a flavivirus (species Dengue virus of the genus Flavivirus), transmitted by aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by headache, severe joint pain, and a rash.
Called also breakbone fever, dengue fever.

S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=dengue&searchmode=none (last access: 3 September 2014); DORLAND p. 2061. 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/science/dengue (last access: 6 September 2015). 3. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/dengue (last access: 22 September 2024).

SYN: 1. breakbone fever, dengue fever. 2. breakbone fever, dandy fever. (depending on context)

S: 1. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/dengue (last access: 9 September 2024). 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/science/dengue (last access: 6 September 2015).

CR: Aedes aegypti, Aedes japonicus, chikungunya, dengue virus, infectious disease, Japanese encephalitis, mosquito, RNA virus, Stegomyia albopicta, yellow fever, Zika virus.