Synonyms for dengue
ˈdɛŋ geɪ, -gidengue

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1. denguenoun

   Synonyms:
   breakbone fever, dengue fever, dandy fever

2. denguenoun

   An acute febrile disease of the tropics caused by a flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.

   Synonyms:
   dandy fever, breakbone fever, dengue fever

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1. dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fevernoun

   an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints

   Synonyms:
   breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever

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1. • Infectious Disease

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1. denguenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Sp.] break-bone fever, dandy-fever

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1. List of paraphrases for "dengue":

   dang

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1. dengue

   Synonyms:
   Bouquet fever, breakbone fever

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1. Erik Sloan:

   Dengue is responsible for about 10% of people who come back from holiday with a temperature, we see more patients with Dengue than we did 10 or 20 years ago.

2. Rabindra Abeyasinghe:

   What we are encouraging countries to do is focus on better management of patients, because if you manage the patient and you prevent the deaths, what we basically do is we turn dengue into a sort of normal flu-like thing. Which comes and goes.

3. Ayesha Akhter:

   We are making sure all the government and private hospitals have all the resources to tackle this outbreak. We have opened a special section at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for dengue patients.

4. Martin Chaknueve:

   It is shocking how people are being fooled by doctors in the name of dengue and looting ordinary mass. Asking patients to eat dragon fruit and kiwi only and still people doubts physicians. Fake blood reports are prepared to fleece money

5. Lucy Harman:

   There is a lot of stagnant water which greatly increases the number of breeding sites for mosquitoes, as a result, there's a higher risk of mosquito-borne disease such as Zika virus and dengue fever.