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Dengue fever   /dɛng fˈivər/   Listen
Dengue fever

noun
1.
An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.  Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue.





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"Dengue fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... germs injected into the body by the bites of insects, such as mosquitoes, fleas, and bedbugs. Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and bubonic plague may be caught in ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department
... to marshes or stagnant water is usually damp, and has mosquitoes, which transmit malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever. ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss


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