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2007-03-22 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-22 18:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "This infectious disease is manifested by a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains (myalgias and arthralgias severe pain gives it the name break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease) and rashes; the dengue rash is characteristically bright red petechia and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest - in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.

Some cases develop much milder symptoms, which can, when no rash is present, be misdiagnosed as a flu or other viral infection. Thus, travelers from tropical areas may inadvertently pass on dengue in their home countries, having not been properly diagnosed at the height of their illness. Patients with dengue can only pass on the infection through mosquitoes or blood products while they are still febrile.

The classic dengue fever lasts about six to seven days, with a smaller peak of fever at the trailing end of the fever (the so-called "biphasic pattern"). Clinically, the platelet count will drop until the patient's temperature is normal.

Cases of DHF also show higher fever, haemorrhagic phenomena, thrombocytopenia and haemoconcentration. A small proportion of cases lead to dengue shock syndrome (DSS) which has a high mortality rate."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-22 18:09|| 2007-03-22 18:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Coming to an emergency room near you.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-03-22 18:52|| 2007-03-22 18:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Umm, if we have to, do we ahve a way to seal the border? What happened to the 700 miles of fence?

When the day comes, there will be hard questions, and the blame should fall for every death on the idiot Republicans and their Democrat fellow travlelers who blocked building the fence. This includes George W Bush who repeatedly pushed back on enforcement and the fence.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-22 22:50|| 2007-03-22 22:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, someone has to infect the people that American germs won't.

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