How to know whether you have gotten a dengue fever or just normal fever? Many people often mistaken aedes mosquitoes as normal mosquitoes. Often when bitten, they do not give much attention. However, if you realised that you have the following symptoms, you know that you have likely been bitten by an aedes mosquito and the fever you are having is very dangerous.
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- Fever
- Nausea
- Vomitting
- Body aches
- Easy bruising
- Severe headaches
- Pain behind the eyes
- Mild bleeding (such as nose bleed and bleeding gums)
- The virus is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female
mosquitoes. After virus incubation for 4–10 days, an infected mosquito is
capable of transmitting the virus for the rest of its life.
- Infected humans are the main carriers and multipliers of the virus, serving as
a source of the virus for uninfected mosquitoes. Patients who are already infected
with the dengue virus can transmit the infection up to 12 days.
- At the moment, here is no specific treatment for dengue fever
- There is no vaccine to protect against dengue
- However, major progress has been made in developing a vaccine against dengue/severe dengue
