CATEGORY (Skin, General, Viral, Contagious)
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Infectious and parasitic diseases- Arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers
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SYSTEM
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ORGAN
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ALTERNATE NAMES /COMMON NAMES
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Dandy fever/ Break bone fever Historical names - La dengue / Break heart fever
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NAMES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
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ICD 10 CLASSIFICATION
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A 90
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WORLD STATISTICS
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50 to 200 million people a year
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INDIAN STATISTICS
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India has highest Dengue burden. 34% of Dengue patients the world over from India
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MOST PREVALENT IN
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Asia, China, Africa
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