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Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection found in tropical and sub-tropical places around the world. In the recent years, transmission of dengue has increased predominantly in urban and semi-urban areas and has become a major cause for ill health globally. Severe dengue (known as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever) was first identified in 1950's during dengue epidemics in the Philippines and Thailand. In the present days, severe dengue affects most of the Asian and Latin American countries and has become a leading cause for hospitalization and deaths among children in these countries There are four distinct types of the virus that cause dengue which are closely related,they are : DEN-1 DEN-2  DEN-3 DEN-4. Aedes aegypti (DENGUE CAUSING MOSQUITO)  How Dengue Fever is Transmitted? The Aedes aegypti (A type of mosquito)is the primary vector of dengue.  The virus is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female mosquitoes.  After ...