Start studying Levels of Organization of multicellular organisms. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.
* Disease: The universal name for the disease is Dengue Fever. Other names that are commonly associated with this disease include: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ((DHF) Disease caused by Dengue Fever), Breakbone Fever, Dandy Fever, O'nyong-nyong Fever, Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) and Dengue-like Disease (5). Signs/Symptoms: The disease ranges from mild to severe. Mild dengue fever causes chills, high fever (that lasts about five to seven days), rash, severe headache, pain behind the eyes and muscle and joint pain (3, 4). The severe joint pain has given dengue the name Breakbone Fever (3).
Yellow and Dengue Fever. There are no yellow fever and dengue fever epidemics in our county. The vector mosquito (a mosquito that transmits disease) Aedes aegypti disappeared in year 2000, but we do have other species of vector mosquito, such as the Aedes albopictus. Our county is a tourist area where it is possible to have imported cases of Dengue Fever and Yellow Fever.