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Dengue feverIt's sometimes called "breakbone fever" because of the high fever and severe bone pain this mosquito-borne virus inflicts.

Avoiding ticks, mosquitoes and other summer health hazards 2011

Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever causes headaches, which can be severe, muscle and joint pains, a rash and in some cases, vomiting and diarrhoea.

NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

Dengue, also known as breakbone fever, is widespread in parts of Asia and Papua New Guinea and cases in Australia are blamed on an infected person travelling in from these areas where it is endemic.

northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star 2009

In 2002, nearly three quarters of a million Brazilians took ill and 91 died from the virus — nicknamed "breakbone" for the severe body pains it causes — and already this year, 54 people have perished in Rio, where the infection rate has doubled since the beginning of 2007.

Dengue Plagues Rio 2008

And we're not immune in North America: Dengue fever breakbone fever has moved from central America northern Mexico, and warming climate has brought Lyme disease to New Hampshire and Maine, is more than eight-fold as common than it was a decade ago.

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.: The Biggest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century Paul R. Epstein 2011

And we're not immune in North America: Dengue fever breakbone fever has moved from central America northern Mexico, and warming climate has brought Lyme disease to New Hampshire and Maine, is more than eight-fold as common than it was a decade ago.

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.: The Biggest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century Paul R. Epstein 2011

And we're not immune in North America: Dengue fever breakbone fever has moved from central America northern Mexico, and warming climate has brought Lyme disease to New Hampshire and Maine, is more than eight-fold as common than it was a decade ago.

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.: The Biggest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century Paul R. Epstein 2011

And we're not immune in North America: Dengue fever breakbone fever has moved from central America northern Mexico, and warming climate has brought Lyme disease to New Hampshire and Maine, is more than eight-fold as common than it was a decade ago.

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.: The Biggest Global Health Threat of the 21st Century Paul R. Epstein 2011

Dengue fever is sometimes called 'breakbone fever' because of the excruciating pain one may experience in their joints.

Amber DeGrace: Don't Let Dengue Fever Take a Bite Out of Your Key West Vacation 2010

In english, dengue is called breakbone fever and it is very painful.

mosquitos, malaria, dengue, etc, etc. 2006