Comments on: Dengue fever, virus and mosquito https://www.euroimmunblog.com/dengue-fever-virus-mosquito/ Forschung, Wissenschaft und Diagnostik Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alec https://www.euroimmunblog.com/dengue-fever-virus-mosquito/#comment-6809 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:02:21 +0000 http://www.euroimmunblog.com/?p=355#comment-6809 Hello, Dr. Konstanze Stiba,
I found your blog very interesting and now I’m going to write what I think about it.
Firstly there were many things about dengue fever I didn't know that are very interesting. The first thing was that I didn’t know that dengue fever virus infections are of the most frequent virus infections in the world. The number of people who are in risk of contract the dengue fever infection is insane. 3.9 billion in 128 countries!! Thats too much.
What you wrote about the 4 different dengue fever virus serotypes is very usefull and something we should have to know. “Dengue virus belongs to the flaviviruses and exists in 4 different variants, so called serotypes: DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4. A person who has overcome a dengue infection gains lifelong immunity – but unfortunately only against the one serotype that has caused the infection.”
You wrote something we really should know if we are in places where there is a risk of dengue fever and specially in Jakarta, where the virus has duplicated the outbreak from one year in only two months. That is that the mosquitoes that transmit the virus “are active during the day and feel particularly comfortable in manmade habitats and urban regions.” We should know it because so we can forewarn when we went this places and we will be more cautious. It is also important to know how they look, something you also have written.

I did know about the sinthoms of this fever. But in general your blog was amazing!! The informations were very interesting and it was never bored.

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