For this unit, Disease has taught me a lot of different types of diseases and there cause and affects. For the third Action Project I was too choose an epidemic that was world spread in a country. I chose the Dengue Fever because growing up I've heard about it a lot and I had a two family members go through this disease. So, I chose to learn more about than just knowing the name and that it makes you sick. The Dengue Fever is a serious disease that has been around since the early 1960's and still is around today. What I am most proud of is learning more about the disease. The most challenging thing about this Action Project was trying to search important information and not finding nothing. Hope you enjoy and learn more about diseases.
The Dengue Fever
The Dengue fever is a disease that comes from a mosquito called Aedes aegypti, the mosquito attacks the human body severely. The mosquito lives in countries that have a very high climate, that are tropical. The mosquito likes to reproduce in humid and hide in small places. This mosquito comes out when it needs to eat, and what it does is it stings you anywhere around your body that is exposed and easily to get stinged and will plant the virus. Once, you have that you will later start to get the symptoms which are high fever, joint pain, headaches especially behind your eyes, muscles, nausea, diarrhea, rash that looks similar to measles and mouth and nose bleeding. You can stay with this illness 3-7 days if you don’t get immediate help. It is originally located in these countries Cambodia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Cuba and more countries. It developed in Southeast Asia and then headed to other areas around the world. The viruses are kept and maintained in the forests of Southeast Asia and Africa by transmission of the female.
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| "Denguefieber." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. |
The R Nought for the Dengue fever is 27.2 which means that every mosquito infects 27.2 people a day. It is not contagious so a person with a virus cannot pass it to another person. People can prevent getting the Dengue Fever from wearing clothing that will cover your skin from getting stung. Wearing Mosquito repellent or a clip on, that will be with you all the time wherever you go. Mosquito nets also are good for doors and beds. Repellent candles are good for outdoor events. Some places where they would likely to reproduce is in small places like inside tires, tree cracks, roofs and between bricks. The reason for this is when the temperature gets too high or it starts raining and get humid. That’s the perfect time for the mosquito to reproduce. The sanitation of places is a huge problem because that's what attracts the mosquito's too. No vaccine for adults and children can be the reason why people are dying. poor vector control is not getting rid of the mosquito's.
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| N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. |
However, The Dengue Fever had been around since the early 1960's. This is a severe disease it has killed over 100,000 people. The places that struck the most was in Puerto Rico in 2007, The Dominican Republic in 2007 and The Philippines in 2006 & 2008. The most recent place the dengue has been notified, has been in Pakistan the year 2011 and killed over 350 plus more people. This graph shows you the population density and the environment/ disaster affected. As you can see in the graph below it shows the in 2000 of the population density and the environment disaster there were 12-14 countries.
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| JR. "Gapminder Graph". 2015 |
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