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1. Also known as breakbone fever, the most common form of dengue causes severe headaches and joint pains but is usually not deadly and most sufferers recover within a week.
2. Also known as breakbone fever, dengue is usually not fatal, but the more serious hemorrhagic strain has a fatality rate of 5 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
3. A virulent strain of dengue known as " breakbone fever " spread during the unseasonably warm summer of 1988 to areas of Mexico where it usually does not appear, said Dr . Patz.
4. Also known as breakbone fever, the disease is not usually fatal, but the more serious hemorrhagic dengue has a fatality rate of 5 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
5. Later on this trip, Ammons himself would contract dengue fever, a sometimes dangerous, mosquito-borne illness that he described as " the flu on steroids " and the locals call " breakbone fever ."
6. The symptoms of dengue fever are a sudden high fever, a severe headache, vomiting, a rash and pain in the joints and bones so severe that the illness is also known as breakbone fever.
7. The mosquito is also responsible for infecting about 100 million people each year with dengue ( pronounced DEN-gee ) fever, a severe flulike illness whose common name _ breakbone fever _ adverts to its excruciating pain.
8. There are no vaccinations or pills that prevent these three : schistosomiasis, a parasite disease also known as bilharzia, or snail fever; giardiasis, frequently called giardia, for the parasite that causes it, and dengue, or breakbone fever.
9. A sudden onset of chills, extreme fatigue, and severe pains behind the eyes accompanied by headache are followed within a few hours by immobilizing pains in the back and joints ( which gives dengue fever its nickname, " breakbone fever " ).
10. In the South, it has transmitted dengue, also called breakbone fever because it makes people feel as if their bones are breaking, and perhaps Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a fatality rate of 50 to 80 percent and leaves half its survivors with brain damage.