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Question: Is dengue contagious from person to person? How is dengue fever spread? Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an illness caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include high fever, rashes, headaches, and muscle and joint pains, among others. The disease is prevalent ...
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Once commonly called breakbone fever, dengue is painful to endure. (The origin of the name “dengue” is not certain but is thought by some to come from the Swahili phraseka-dinga pepo, meaning a cramplike seizure caused by an evil spirit.) Patients suffer debilitating spells of headach...
But how is the cell able to detect virus particles located away from its main body? A possible explanation is chemotaxis. Antibodies are known to associate and dissociate from their antigen over time. It is tempting to speculate that the dissociated antibodies leak away from the complex and ...
The dengue NS1 protein is thought to play a critical role in severe dengue disease by triggering immune reactions associated with vascular leak and shock, which are the major causes of death in persons suffering from dengue hemorrhagic fever. Displayed by permission of The Regents of the Universi...
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range over which mosquitoes were able to detect IR. A sensor that exclusively relied on this protein may not be useful at the 70 cm range the team had observed. At this distance there likely isn’t sufficient IR collected by the peg-in-pit structure to heat it enough to activate TRPA1....
DEET.N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, or DEET, is the most common and effective repellent against mosquitoes. It works by interrupting a mosquito’s ability to detect carbon monoxide and body odor, so the mosquito can’t detect you. Picaridin.Picaridin is a newer repellent. It works like DEET by...
A public health alert for 150 dengue fever cases has been issued in Mombasa, Kenya. The Conversation Africa's Health and Medicine Editor Joy Wanja Muraya spoke to Dr Andrew Githeko on the effective management of this disease whose spread is encouraged by