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30296: Roebling (reply) Re: 30283: Karshan (news) Dengue in DR (probably in Haiti too) (fwd)




From: Elizabeth Roebling <lizieames@yahoo.com>

It is important to note that this is hemmoraigic (sp?) dengue, not the ordinary one. The symptoms are a flu with a high fever, then followed by muscle pains in the legs when the flu has broken. Mostly children have died here (DR) from it. It is important NOT to take aspirin but rather acetominophen to reduce the fever and keep fluids up. Odd but no one has mentioned a campaign to get screens on the windows here. This mosquito feeds in the day time, not at night, so bed nets are not effective.

  Elizabeth