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Symptoms of dengue fever appear suddenly after a period of incubation that lasts about five to eight days. It includes fever, chills, headache, eye pain, red eye, enlarge lymph nodes, a red flush to the face, lower back pain, extreme weakness and severe aches in the legs and joints.
The initial signs of illness last about two to three days. After this, the fever fluctuates and a rash appears in the arms, legs, and spreading to the chest and abdomen. The soles of the feet and the palms of the hands are swollen and turn red. The combination these characteristics of having fever, rash and headache are called the dengue triad. Although weakness and fatigue may last several weeks, most people recover fully from it. Once infected, the immune system keeps producing cells that prevent it from re-infection for about a year.

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The rate of deaths associated with dengue fever is now becoming less. But this does not mean that we should not put concern on it. Many of my friends had dengue and according to them, it is not easy. We should keep in mind that dengue fever is fatal and it must be prevented.
As what people who are associated with the health department say, we must prevent it. And this is prevented by particularly, keeping our homes clean—inside and outside.
Aedes Aegypti, the kind of mosquito that carries the disease, lays their eggs in stagnant water which is found in our homes. Change the water in flower vases every other day to prevent the mosquitoes from laying their egg there. And keep the water containers covered,.
For yourself, see to it that you apply mosquito repellant lotion. Several are available in the market with variations of scents.
Bear in mind that prevention is better than cure.

There is slight information in available reports concerning the penalties of dengue illness for pregnant women. No persuasive confirmation representing an association between dengue contamination during pregnancy and hereditary malformations has been accounted. Nevertheless, if the mother is unwell with dengue at the moment of delivery, the child can be inborn with dengue disease or can obtain dengue throughout the delivery practice itself, and then increase the demonstration of dengue fever or DHF. Passive transplacental transmit of maternal anti-dengue antibodies get hold of from a prior maternal virus can also put infants at larger risk of DHF with their initial dengue infection, but these maternal antibodies are unoccupied by 9-12 months of age.   

The chief mosquito vector, Ae. aegypti, is most commonly found in or next to human habitations and favors to nourish on humans during the daylight. It has two crest stages of biting movement: in the break of day for a number of hours later than daybreak and in the late hours of daylight for several hours previous to dark. Even so, the mosquito may provide for at any time during daytime, in particular indoors, in shaded areas, or when it is gloomy. Mosquito propagation sites contain non-natural water containers such as unnecessary tires, exposed water storeroom barrels, buckets, flower vases or pots, cans, and cisterns.

Nationwide preparedness must be the slogan of all stakeholders as the not on time initiation of crisis control measures in the face of an eruption do not considerably lessen morbidity and may consequence in mortality that was preventable. An assessment of obtainable resources  for vector-control, most favorable patient care and management, epidemiologic and entomologic surveillance, etc., in addition to their organisation and sustainability must be assumed and identify the needs suitably addressed. The high incidence of international and regional tour related to tourism, labour, commerce and other actions adds to the possibility of importation and overture of dengue virus type 3 into our regions. Accessible high Aedes aegypti indices will improve the possible for virus diffusion in our populations.  

There is no detailed or specific action for dengue fever, but close medical awareness and clinical management revives the lives of many patients. At the present time, the only technique of controlling dengue and DHF is to battle the vector mosquito all the way through chemical control and environmental management. Community-based cleaning operations remove tyres, bottles, cans and other objects that catch and keep hold of water, get free of possible breeding sites for vector mosquitoes. Larval surroundings are too treated with insecticide. Insecticidal space sprays, by means of vehicle-mounted or moveable machines, are used in many programmes for urgent situations and to  control the growth of adult mosquitoes.

     3)      Brisk growth of cities in tropical countries has directed to congestion, urban decay, and substandard sanitation, permitting more mosquitoes to live nearer to more people.     4)      The amplification in non-biodegradable plastic packaging and redundant tires is generating new breeding sites for mosquitoes.      5)      Augmented jet air travel is serving people dirty with dengue viruses to move easily from city to city.      6)      Dengue hemorrhagic fever is as well on the upsurge. Persons who have been contaminated with one or more variety of dengue virus are at larger risk for the more harsh disease. With the rise in all types of virus, the rate of dengue hemorrhagic fever becomes more expected. 

All types of dengue disease are re-emerging globally and producing larger and more recurrent outbreaks, in particular in cities in the tropics. The surfacing of dengue as a main public health crisis has been most staged in the western hemisphere. Dengue fever has arrived at rampant levels in Central America and is frightening the United States. There are quite a lot of issues that are contributing to the renaissance of dengue fever:

  1)      No valuable mosquito control efforts are happening in most countries with dengue.     2)      Public health structures to identify and be in charge of epidemics are worsening around the world.  

Vector-borne illnesses are those multiply by mosquitoes, sand-flies, ticks and rodents. They comprise diseases such as dengue, West Nile and chikungunya fever, nephropathia epidemica and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), in which all have the probable to affect epidemic in parts of Europe. The outbreak of chikungunya fever in the region of Ravenna, Italy, last summer is a picture of this danger. The initial conclusions of the risk evaluation were presented and the  last report on the assessment will be available in the upcoming months. The type of weather and environmental transformation being forecast by experts will adjust the risk to Europe from vector borne diseases.

The World Health Organization states that as of 1998, infectious and parasitic diseases slashed one-third of all deaths in the world in 1997 and 43% of deaths among developing nations. The low rate in Cuba is an exception because of the possible high educational and health awareness rate with regards to the disease in the country. This can be attributed to the consistent improvements of Cuba’s health system over the past 50 years which was further amplified by its speedy modernization. The United States, a nation thought of by most people as a world leader, is even inferior to the Cuban health care system, a sheer proof that you don’t need power to heal.