How to Use dengue in a Sentence

dengue

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Definition of denguenext
  • Still, researchers have warned that the peak of the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh is yet to come.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • West Nile virus and dengue can be confirmed with a blood test.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • In the past 50 years, dengue cases have increased 30-fold, the authors write in the study.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The country recorded just 281 dengue deaths for all of last year.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The worst-case scenario would be what happens with dengue.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The dengue cases this year are 50% higher than last year.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The same thing is true for viruses like dengue, which is a tropical virus.
    — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2020
  • When dengue broke out in Dakar in 2009, the city’s Lebanese population was hit the hardest.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In Africa, climate change has led to more hunger, malaria, dengue fever and flooding, Mr. Taalas said.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There were more cases of dengue in Latin America in the first half of this year — more than three million — than in all of 2022.
    — Stephanie Nolen Malin Fezehai, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The species in the study is the same kind of mosquito that spreads viruses such as dengue and chikungunya among humans.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • But in rare cases, dengue cases can be severe and fatal.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The new study discovered a previously unknown step in the spread of Zika and dengue.
    — Sarah Sloat, NBC News, 1 July 2022
  • Some cases of dengue fever can result in a rare hemorrhagic form that can kill.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • Still, Roberto stayed in his room, taking the medicine he’d been prescribed for dengue and urging his mother and niece to keep their distance, just to be safe.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That has made the microbe a promising strategy for fighting dengue.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
  • Others like dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Zika have also continued to take lives over the years.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 12 June 2020
  • As Jill Langlois reports for Nat Geo, malaria and dengue cases are on the rise in the region as deforestation rates surged in the first half of 2020.
    — National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Most people infected with dengue will have mild or no symptoms.
    — Dr. Adiba Matin, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Most people who get dengue don’t develop symptoms, and most people get better in one to two weeks.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Following a nasty bout with dengue, hair began falling out.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Those with the odors of dengue patients attracted more mosquitos.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • The spread of dengue, in particular, is a threat, with about half the world’s population at risk and hundreds of millions of cases each year.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • The study team infected mice with Zika and dengue to examine the link between scent and mosquitoes.
    — Sarah Sloat, NBC News, 1 July 2022
  • The district has not identified dengue infections in the insects.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The list also includes dengue fever, leprosy, and chikungunya.
    — Paula Andalo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The hepatitis C virus belongs to a group known as flaviviruses that also includes West Nile virus, dengue virus and yellow fever virus.
    — David Keyton, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Urbanization has aided the spread of dengue, with more than 100 countries now endemic for the disease.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • With dengue, only one in four people get sick and symptoms can be mild or severe, such as internal bleeding.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The institute has since branched out to study other viruses, including dengue and zika.
    — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2020

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