Dengue+Fever

=Viral Disease Name=

**Description of virus that causes the disease.**
(What type and size ? Include a diagram or virus micrograph if possible) Dengue Fever is a mosquito borne virus from the Flaviviridae family

**Viral Specificity:**
-A positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. -Targets Dendritic cells

**Symptoms and progression of the disease:**
-This disease is simplistic and relatively not harmful the first time you get it, but the second time you are infected it is far worse due to Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever. -severe fever -chills, headache -pain behind the eyes -flushed at the onset of the fever -rash may appear on the torso after 3-4 days

**Common Methods of Transmission:**
-It is transmitted by mosquitos biting you that are infected with a dengue -can be transmitted by blood

**Treatment and Prevention:**
(Brief synopsis of treament. Outline preventive measures if any) -There is no cure or treatment for Dengue Fever, -the only suggestion is to lay in bed and try to wait it out, -something called Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever can occur if you have been infected by a Dengue Fever previously or are around he age of 12, and this is potentially fatal. -Symptoms are treated, e.g. with analgesics.

**Miscellaneous:**
-Mosquitos first gave it to humans -The exact origins of the disease are not clear and arguments have been made that it originated in Africa and was spread worldwide with the slave trade

**Resources accessed:**
(At least two) || www.biolsci.org/v06p0294.htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001373.htm http://www.pnas.org/content/100/12/6899.full