Once a person is affected by a dengue virus, the platelets can no longer âactivateâ itself. So whenever there is damage, the platelets cannot form the mesh structure and the blood flows out of the vessel. As blood flows out, so does the platelets. This causes the platelet count to fall drastically. The blood that flows out causes internal. and external bleeding and leads to a haemorrhage.
1 Today, the Aswan Dam keeps the Nile from flooding modern cities. 2  The Ancient Egyptians called the Nile the Aur, which means black and comes from the black soil. 3  The Egyptians measured the height of the annual flood using a Nilometer.
The 2011 Missouri River floods was a flooding event on the Missouri River in the United States. The flooding was triggered by record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming along with near-record spring rainfall in central and eastern Montana.