Dengue Fever Videos!

Click here to watch our homemade Video Describing the Biology Behind Dengue Fever! Want to watch more Videos about Dengue?  News Video Network, (Accessed February 22, 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RG4rZlrStI How People in India are coping with the current crisis of Dengue  Potential Solutions to Dengue Michigan State University, (Accessed February 22, 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM2-QqEWzEM This video shows an innovative solution to Dengue, that actually takes the disease from its Mosquitto carriers  NDTV,...

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What is dengue fever?

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What are the symptoms of dengue fever?

Symptoms of dengue fever include a sudden high fever, severe headaches, pain behind the eyes, severe joint and muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, skin rash, and mild bleeding such as nosebleeds, gum bleeding, and easily bruising. Some mild symptoms can often be confused with the flu. Symptoms are generally less serious in younger children, and are more severe among older children and adults. The more serious cases may develop into what is known as “dengue...

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How has dengue developed?

Although epidemics of a dengue like virus occurred before the 18th century, the accepted earliest occurrences were three epidemics in Cairo, modern day Jakarta, modern day Indonesia, and Philadelphia (Encyclopedia Britannica 2013).  The vector of mosquitoes most likely traveled to these port cities via ship (ibid). This illustrates the effect of globalization on the spread of disease. Slave trade allowed for dengue carrying mosquitoes to reach...

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Who is currently affected by dengue?

Today, Dengue fever is in the range of 2.5 billion, meaning, 40% of the world’s population lives in areas where they run risk of catching dengue (CDC 2010b). That risk decreases or increases depending on where you live or what you are exposed to (ibid). Still to this day about 50 to 100 million infections occur annually (ibid). There have been around 22,000 deaths recorded per year. Dengue fever is still very much alive and haunting (ibid). University...

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What is the biology behind dengue?

In order to understand how dengue fever propagates, one must first understand the life of the mosquitos that most often transmit the disease to people (CDC 2010a). The two types of mosquitoes that are known to harbor dengue fever virus are Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (CDC 2010d).  As with all species of mosquito, aegypti and albopictus thrive in tropical environments and need stagnant water to reproduce. Female mosquitoes will...

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How do urbanization and globalization affect dengue?

The mosquitoes most likely to spread dengue , the Aedes aegypti or the Aedes albopictus mosquito, breed in areas with standing water. Urbanization inevitably creates an ideal environment for mosquitoes to breed in. Construction of buildings and the daily activities of the people who live in the buildings interfere with water’s ability to drain from the environment (Gubler 2011). MissYunia (Date Accessed: February 22, 2013)...

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What is the effect of dengue on poor urban areas?

Those living in poor urban areas have no means by which they can protect themselves from Dengue fever. Almost 137 million people in urban environments have no access to safe drinking water, while 600 million have access to no proper sanitation. In the Nigerian city of Ibadan only 3% of the people have access to piped water (Alirol, 2011). In poorer third world countries the access to clean water is difficult. With limited access to clean water,...

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Are there any potential solutions to the dengue problem?

The fight against dengue occurs on two levels. There is the quest to find drugs that cure the disease, and there are efforts to stop the proliferation of the disease through mosquitoes by improving conditions in less wealthy, urban areas.                                                 Pakistanic (Date Accessed February 22,...

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