Dengue infects more than100 million people a year. 每年有超过一亿人感染登革热。
It is the major media for malaria and dengue fever. 埃及伊蚊是登革热病的传播媒介。
Guard against the breeding of mosquitoes to avoid dengue. 对滋生蚊虫要多加防範,以免得到骨痛热病.
dengue
[ noun ] an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints <noun.state>
Dengue \Den"gue\ (d[e^][ng]"g[asl]), n. [See Note, below.] (Med.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also {breakbone fever}. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Note: This disease, when it first appeared in the British West India Islands, was called the dandy fever, from the stiffness and constraint which it grave to the limbs and body. The Spaniards of the neighboring islands mistook the term for their word dengue, denoting prudery, which might also well express stiffness, and hence the term dengue became, as last, the name of the disease. --Tully.
"Picked up a touch of dengue fever upriver," the traveler boasts, and his Chablis-sipping companions are one-upped.
The insects can carry diseases such as malaria, scrub typhus, lyme disease, dengue fever, sand fly fever and Rift Valley Fever.