See also:

• DENGUE (pronounced deng-ga)

DENGUE (pronounced deng-ga)  , an infectious See also:

• FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever occurring in warm climates . The symptoms are a sudden attack of fever, accompanied by rheumatic pains in the See also:

• JOINTS

joints and muscles with severe headache and erythema . After a few days a crisis is reached and an See also:

• INTERVAL

interval of two or three days is followed by a slighter return of fever and See also:

• PAIN (from Lat. poena, Gr. robin, penalty, that which must be paid: O. Fr. peine)
• PAIN, BARRY (1867– )

pain and an eruption resembling See also:

• MEASLES, (Morbilli, Rubeola; the M. E. word is maseles, properly a diminutive of a word meaning " spot," O.H.G. m¢sa, cf. " mazer "; the equivalent is Ger. Masern; Fr. Rougeole)

measles, the most marked characteristic of the disease . The disease is rarely fatal, See also:

• DEATH

death occurring only in cases of extreme weakness caused by old See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, See also:

• INFANCY

infancy or other illness . Little is known of the See also:

• AETIOLOGY, or ETIOLOGY (from Gr. atria, cause, and Xo yia, discourse)

aetiology of " See also:

• DENGUE (pronounced deng-ga)

dengue." The See also:

• VIRUS, CHRISTOBAL DE (1550?-1615?)

virus is probably similar to that of other exanthematous fevers and communicated by an intermediary culex . The disease is nearly always epidemic, though at intervals it appears to be pandemic and in certain districts almost endemic . The See also:

• AREA

area over which the disease ranges may be stated generally to be between 32° 47' N. and 23° 23' S . Throughout this area " dengue " is constantly epidemic . The earliest epidemic of which anything is known occurred in 1779–178o in See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt and the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Indies . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief epidemics have been those of 1824–1826 in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, and in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indies and the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern states of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, of 1870-1875, extending practically over the whole of the tropical portions of the East and reaching as far as See also:

• CHINA

China . In 1888 and 1889 a See also:

• GREAT

great outbreak spread along the shores of the See also:

• AEGEAN

Aegean and over nearly the whole of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor . Perhaps " dengue " is most nearly endemic in See also:

• EQUATORIAL

equatorial East See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa and in the West Indies .

The word has usually been identified with the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish dengue, meaning stiff or See also:

• PRIM, JUAN, MARQUIS DE LOS CASTILLEJOS, COUNT DE REDS (1814-187o)

prim behaviour, and adopted in the West Indies as a name suit-able to the curious cramped movements of a sufferer from the disease, similar to the name " See also:

• DANDY

dandy-fever " which was given to it by the negroes . According to the New See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary (quoting Dr See also:

• CHRISTIE, RICHARD COPLEY (183o–Igor)

Christie in The See also:

• GLASGOW

Glasgow Medical See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal, See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1881), both ".dengue " and " dandy " are corruptions of the See also:

• SWAHILI (Wa-Swahili, i.e. coast people, from the Arabic sail, coast)

Swahili word dinga or denga, meaning a sudden attack of See also:

• CRAMP
• CRAMP, CHARLES HENRY (1828— )

cramp, the Swahili name for the disease being ka-dinga pepo . See See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
• PATRICK, ST

Patrick See also:

• MANSON, GEORGE (1850-1876)

Manson, Tropical Diseases; a See also:

• MANUAL

Manual of Diseases of Warm Climates (1903) .