dengue fever

dengue fever
noun /ˈdɛŋɡeɪ ˈfiːvə,ˈdɛŋɡiː ˈfiːvɚ/
An acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease endemic to the tropics, caused by any of four species of the virus genus , and primarily transmitted to humans from mosquitoes, though human-to-human transmission is also well documented.

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