Description, History, and Causes:

Dengue Fever is a very common disease that first appeared around the 1950s, in the Philippines. The main cause of Dengue is from a mosquito bite of the Aedes mosquito. That isn't the only cause, there are rare possibilities of catching it like; Organ transplants, blood transfusions and from an infected mother to her fetus. There has been a dramatic increase in cases because of people not being aware of what Dengue is. There are four strains, they all cause the same symptoms and they all have the possibility of developing full spectrum of disease.