After malaria dengue is one of tropical illness affecting travellers, dengue caused by virus and spread by an infected mosquito having bites and consumpt of your blood.
The mosquito has adapted to specipically live in our lively hood and always bites during the day in the 3 hours around dawn and the 3 hours around sunset.
Dengue symptoms are headache, severe muscle and breakbone fever, rash and fever, the whole illness coming on very suddenly.
Dengue often seems to get better than comes back again hence another name for it is saddle back fever, usually the worst syptomps are over in a week, however many people get a milder version.
More severe form of dengue called dengue haemorrhagic fever with bleeding into the skin and other organs.
We can avoid getting dengue, it is not easy but possible by:
- sleep with a bed net
- treat your clothes with a repellent
- screened our houses
- keep covered in the day
- use an effective repellent
- use an insecticide in the rooms
- remove mosquito brending sites