TY - BOOK ED - Medi-vision TI - Dengue Fever PY - 2004/// CY - Hong Kong: PB - Medi-vision, KW - Tropical medicine KW - Dvd N1 - Programme 46 N2 - Dengue is caused by four strains of a RNA flavivirus, transmitted by the daytime biting Aedes mosquito, and is primarily a disease of the tropics and subtropics. Thought for long to be a benign infection, the past 50 years has seen a global explosion in Dengue and its complications. Increasing urbanization, crowding and travel mean that we now have a pandemic; furthermore dengue is now considered by WHO to be a serious disease of global ER -