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Dengue hemorrhagic fever, acute heat illness is common in tropical areas, in a way similar to the spread of malaria. Dengue hemorrhagic fever is caused by one of the four serotypes of the virus from the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. In each serotype is different enough that no cross-protection and epidemics caused by several serotypes (hiperendemisitas) can occur.
Dengue fever dengue disease can only be transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes Aegypty females.

• Mosquitoes are getting dengue virus while biting / sucking the blood of people:

a.  People dengue fever.

b.  People who are not sick of dengue hemorrhagic fever in his blood but there is dengue virus (because these people have immunity against dengue virus) .

c. The dengue virus-containing but not hurt, can go anywhere and transmit the virus to other people where there is mosquito Aedes aegypti.

• Mosquito Aedes dengue virus Aegypty which deviates in suction and will reproduce and spread throughout the body including saliva glands.
• And when mosquitoes are biting / sucking the blood of another person, the virus will be transferred along with mosquito saliva.
• If the infected person does not have immunity (usually the children), he will soon suffer from dengue fever
• In the Aedes aegypti mosquito that has a dengue virus, can infect the rest of his life to others.
• But in human blood, dengue virus will die by itself more or less within 1 week.

The need to recognize the signs of the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever?

• Patients with sudden high heat for 2-7 days, appear weak and listless body temperature between 38 º C to 40 C º
• Will appear red spots on the skin, like a mosquito bite caused the outbreak dikulit capillary blood vessels, in order to distinguish the skin stretched, if the rash is gone, is not a sign of the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever.
• In the advanced stage will occur in the nose bleed (nosebleeds)
• When severe, the patient restless, end cold hands and feet to sweat, if not immediately help a hospital in 2-3 days may be dead

How to Prevention
There is no vaccine commercially available for the disease dengue hemorrhagic fever
The most important prevention of dengue hemorrhagic fever is on eliminating or reducing the mosquito vector of dengue fever. Initiatives to eliminate pools of water that is not useful (eg in a flower pot) proved useful for controlling diseases caused by mosquitoes, drain the tub once every week, and throwing things – things that can cause dengue fever mosquito nest Aedes aegypti.
Some things to be done to maintain health and avoid disease dengue hemorrhagic fever are:

• At the time of entering the season changes, note neighborhood clean, like a bathtub drain, closed container that can hold water, and bury the things that can be used nests developments mosquito larva, even though buried in the former goods not good, because it can pollute the soil. It would be better if the goods are recycled, secondhand
• Fogging or fumigation to do will only kill adult mosquitoes.
• Give abate powder will kill larvae in the water. Both must be done to break the chains mosquito breeding.
• If the patient has a fever or high heat, immediately give fever medicine for fever.
• Bring the patient to the hospital if signs of shock

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