Dengue
Dengue
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Dengue
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England: Elsevier Ltd
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The Lancet (British edition), 2017-10, Vol.390 (10106), p.1941-1941
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English
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England: Elsevier Ltd
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The name “dengue fever” seems to have emerged on slave plantations in the Caribbean in the 1820s but, as historian Mary Dobson has noted, the term's origins are obscure. Does it derive from the Swahili Ka-dinga pepo, a seizure caused by an evil spirit, or is it a corruption of “dandy” or the Spanish denguero, “affected”, both referring to the stiff...
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Dengue
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1961860510
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1961860510
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ISSN
0140-6736
E-ISSN
1474-547X
DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32651-X
