DENGUE

DENGUE
"As long as we make the effort to drive away mosquitoes
and keep our environment clean, it is assured that
diseases such as dengue
won’t find their inroads."
 ALL TOGETHER
AGAINST

PREVENTION IS THE BEST

CURE!

Avoid the accumulation of water

in tires, cans and bottles.

Always keep the lid

of the water tank.

Keep the garbage can lid

closed as well.

Fill the dishes or plant

plant pots with sand.

Mobilize your neighbors and your

community to help fight
the mosquito that transmits dengue fever.
Keep an eye on
SYMPTOMS

ATTENTION
ATTENTION
ATTENTION
Weakness Headache

Pain in the eyes Lack of appetite

High fever > 38.5ºC. Red spots

Intense vomiting
 Transmission

TRANSMISSION
TRANSMISSION
TRANSMISSION
1 4
The transmission cycle The mosquito can then
begins when the Aedes transmit the disease by
aegypti mosquito bites biting other healthy
a person infected with people.
the dengue virus.

2 5
The virus goes through Only females of Aedes
reproduction stages aegypti, which feed on
within the mosquito blood, can transmit
between 7 and 10 days. dengue fever.

3
After this period, the
virus reaches the
mosquito's salivary
gland.
Treatments

TREATMENT
TREATMENT
TREATMENT
Rest while the fever
lasts
Oral or intravenous hydration

Don't self-medicate

Do not use acetylsalicylic acid

Seek emergency care immediately in case of

bleeding or the appearance of at least one
alarm sign;
 Fighting dengue

Do you know
the history
of this
danger?
the time has come to
find out!

Origin: Probably
from a virus in
non-human
primates near the
peninsula in
Malaysia.
HISTORY OF
DENGUE
1
Registros históricos
Keep the House and
Surrounding Clean
4 Epidemics
Documented since the 17th
century, with more plausible
epidemics in 1779-1780 in
Asia, Africa and North
America.

2 5
Transmission
confirmation:: Expansion of
the vector:
Confirmed by
The Aedes aegypti
mosquitoes of the
mosquito spread from
genus Aedes in
Africa in the 15th to 19th
1906, and virus
centuries, partly due to the
identified in 1907.

3
slave trade

Severe forms:

Dengue hemorrhagic fever reported in 1953 in the

Philippines, becoming one of the main causes of infant
mortality in the 1970s, and observed in South and Central
America in 1981.
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TAKE CARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND STAY
INFORMED!

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