45 minutes - Individual, or Institutional

Dengue is caused by four strains of a RNA flavivirus, transmitted by the daytime biting Aedes mosquito, and is primarily a disease of the tropics and subtropics. Thought for long to be a benign infection, the past 50 years has seen a global explosion in Dengue and its complications. Increasing urbanization, crowding and travel mean that we now have a pandemic; furthermore dengue is now considered by WHO to be a serious disease of global importance. On this film we see patients at various stages and of varying degrees of severity, presented by doctors in Manila and Bangkok, and we then hear about the aetiology, prevention, detection, pathophysiology and management of Dengue and Dengue Shock Syndrome. 2004

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