Saturday 24 September 2011

DENGUE INTRODUTION

>Dengue fever

is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs.


>SPREAD

it spreads due to bite of dengue mosquito.
  named Aedes.
(it must be remembered the normal mosquito that bits a dengue patient also becomes dengue mosquito).
so we cannot say that it only spreads due to dengue mosquito it spreads by bites of all mosquitoes so we should take care from every mosquito type.

this type of mosquito can live in both dirty and clean water and can bite anytime.


>FACTS AND FIGURES OF ITS DESTRUCTION

 its a world wide diseasec in 110 countries.
major attacks are 1996 America attack.
in Sri Lanka and India it attack each year.
in one attack in Sri Lanka in killed 45,000 people were killed by it.
every year 45,000 people are killed by it.
in Pakistan it has kilned 1000n people in recent attacks.

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