dengue fever

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈdɛŋɡiː ˈfiːvɚ/, /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvɚ/,

Noun

dengue fever (uncountable)

1. An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by varieties of the species Dengue virus, and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.

Synonyms

• breakbone fever

Translations

• French: dengue
• German: Denguefieber
• Italian: dengue
• Portuguese: dengue
• Russian: лихора́дка де́нге
• Spanish: dengue

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