According to mayoclinic.org, a medical website published by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, these symptoms include a sudden high fever, severe headaches, pain behind the eyes, severe joint and muscle pain, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, skin rash (which appears two to five days after fever), and mild bleeding (which can occur in the nose or gums). These symptoms can also take around four to ten days to appear after initial infection from a mosquito bite (mayoclinic.org). The virus starts out as dengue fever and can turn into the more deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. The risk of developing these diseases becomes greater as one person becomes infected with more than one serotype. As stated previously, people can recover. In the worst case scenario, symptoms can become worse, even life-threatening, and eventually can lead to …show more content…
Annually, there are up to 50 million infections that occur worldwide which has lead to upwards of 500,000 reported cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever with 22,000 cases leading to mostly premature deaths of children as well as some adults (who.int). As for the United States, with its climate and other factors, contact between Aedes and people is rare, unless acquired by someone coming to the U.S. as a traveller from a tropical vacation or immigrant from a too humid home, and still it is difficult to transmit once in the continental states. The largest dengue problem the U.S. faces is Puerto Rico, with the highest number of cases diagnosed in the U.S. (cdc.gov). The location has the perfect conditions for the Aedes