{"id":79810,"date":"2014-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-blog.sitata.com\/2014\/12\/30\/can-you-get-dengue-fever-on-your-next-trip-2148aedf77ba\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:32:08","slug":"can-you-get-dengue-fever-on-your-next-trip-2148aedf77ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitata.com\/ar\/can-you-get-dengue-fever-on-your-next-trip-2148aedf77ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Get Dengue Fever on Your Next\u00a0Trip?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can You Get Dengue Fever on Your Next\u00a0Trip?<\/h3>\n

According to estimates by the World Health Organization<\/a>, around 2.5 billion people in over 100 countries are at risk of getting dengue fever. There are an estimated 50 million dengue infections occurring annually across most of the tropical and semitropical countries in the world, including most tourist destinations. The increasing number of cases and their severity and frequency are considered to be linked to factors like changing human ecology, demography, globalization, rapid urbanization and climate change.<\/p>\n

Should you worry? Yes, if you don\u2019t take simple precautions to avoid the disease. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, about 200 to 300 Canadian tourists<\/a> get dengue every year. Dengue fever is not a nice disease to have. It is sometimes called \u201cbreak bone fever\u201d due to the intense joint pain that usually accompanies this infection. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. A few people develop a serious life-threatening form of the disease called dengue hemorrhagic fever. These people develop bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage that can result in dangerously low blood pressure, shock and death. There is no vaccine or treatment for this disease that lasts about a week to 10 days.<\/p>\n

Now, that is all the bad news. The good news is that with simple precautions, you can greatly reduce your risk of getting this infection because it is transmitted only by infected mosquitoes and not from other people. So, if you take measures to avoid mosquito bites while sitting on the beach or hiking in the woods or just walking about outdoors, you can stay safe.<\/p>\n

Mosquito prevention measures<\/a> include some common sense plus the following:<\/p>\n