dengue feverin a sentence
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The prisoners had dengue fever, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne illness that was ravaging the tropics.
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dengue fever = a disease of the tropics characterized by a rash, headache, and muscle/joint pain
- "You ever hear of dengue fever?" he asked as he went down the stairs.† (source)
- Since its revolution Cuba had achieved real control over diseases still burgeoning ninety miles away in Haiti, such as dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis, AIDS.† (source)
- Dengue.† (source)
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Louie picked out a familiar word: dengue.
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dengue = a potentially fatal disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by a rash, headache, and muscle/joint pain
- Unlike malaria, dengue is often found in urban areas.
- The weakness that his dengue fever had left was finally gone.† (source)
- In fact, noted Inchcape Jones, nothing did exist in St. Hubert except malaria, dengue, and a general beastly dullness, and if Red Legs like Kellett longed to die of plague and rat-bite fever, why should decent people object?† (source)
- The pain in his neck (he must have caught it from the lama) had gone with the heavy dengue-aches and the evil taste in the mouth.† (source)