Tag: dengue in Africa

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  December 08, 2020 - by Alison

  Dengue in Africa: Are patients being treated for malaria by mistake?

  Malaria and dengue can be difficult to distinguish. Symptoms are very similar. They typically include a high temperature, or feeling hot or shivery, a headache and feeling or being sick. And both diseases are vector-borne diseases spread by mosquitoes. But the two infections need different…

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  October 03, 2018 - by Alison

  Dengue in Africa: Why we urgently need to wake up to the public health threat on the continent

  Dengue is no stranger to West Africa. The potentially deadly virus might even be endemic in many countries in the region. The problem is, nobody knows the real status of dengue in Africa. And with the numbers not understood, dengue does not feature highly among…

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