Thursday, 18 May 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Chikungunya (17): Asia (Bangladesh)

Chikungunya -- Bangladesh
Mosquito-borne chikungunya is spreading fast in the capital Dhaka with intermittent rains. The government's disease monitoring arm, IEDCR [Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control & Research], has asked people to be aware of the viral infection that has some similarities with dengue fever caused by _Aedes aegypti_ mosquito.
[SHS] has been struggling to bring his fever down. A doctor by training, he could not figure out why his fever persisted as high as 104 deg F [40 deg C] despite taking

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2pQhogu

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