Dengue is a disease closely linked to patterns of community life. Prevent it is easy when you know how. To incorporate health habits that help us to combat dengue, we share basic information about the disease.
It is an infectious disease whose causal agent is a virus belonging to the family of flavovirus. Geographical areas is characteristic of tropical and subtropical. It mainly affects people unvaccinated travelers to tropical regions and particularly to children.
What are your symptoms? In humans, the incubation period is usually 5 to 8 days. The onset is abrupt, with rapid increase in temperature, chills, headache, intense, pain behind the eyes, generalized muscle aches and lower back. Then spots appear on the skin, starting on the trunk, extending to the face, hands, forearms and feet, may at first confused with measles.
The vector of dengue is a mosquito called Aedes aegypti, which, being infected, can transmit the virus by biting healthy persons. The insect becomes transmitter when it enters the virus by biting an infected person. After three to fifteen days thrives infection and the mosquito can transmit the virus for the rest of his life.
The transmission of disease from one infected person to another healthy is not possible, so the treatment of the patients with dengue must be ordinary and can live with their families safely. Health personnel, for their part, should apply in these cases the universal biosafety standards.
