Dengue fever | |
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Classification and external resources | |
ICD-10 | A90. |
ICD-9 | 061 |
DiseasesDB | 3564 |
MedlinePlus | 001374 |
eMedicine | med/528 |
MeSH | C02.782.417.214 |
Dengue fever (pronounced "DEN-gi") is a tropical infectious disease caused by the dengue virus. People get the dengue virus from mosquitoes. Dengue fever is also called break-bone fever, because it can cause so much pain that people feel like their bones are breaking.