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Dengue Brochure PDF
Dengue Brochure PDF
CONTROL AND
• Fever PREVENTION
• Avoid mosquito bites while you
• Headache have a fever.
• Muscle and joint pains
• Don't let mosquitoes bite you. They
• Nausea / vomiting can infect other members of your
• Rash
• Hemorrhagic manifestations
family with dengue after biting you.
Protect
• Use mosquito barriers until the fever
If you have these symptoms, ask your
physician to order a test for dengue.
subsides, to prevent day-biting
mosquitoes from biting a sick person,
yourself
becoming infected, and then biting
Alarm signs: someone else. from
• Intense abdominal pain • Rest in a screened room or under a
• Persistent vomiting bed net. mosquito
• Abrupt change from fever to
hypothermia, with sweating and
prostration. • Use insect repellents
insecticide indoors if
and spray
there are
bites and
• Restlessness or somnolence.
AND PREVENTION
To eliminate
1324 Cañada Street
mosquito breeding
Puerto Nuevo
risk of dengue,
Actual size of an
• Eliminate any
containers where
the mosquito can lay
her eggs, either by
emptying the water, Immediately after the rain, SEARCH for and
covering them or
turning them upside down. Incorrect ELIMINATE all WATER accumulated in
containers and help your community to
Correct
• Keep mosquitoes outside by fixing or PREVENT DENGUE.
installing window and door screens. In order to prevent the Aedes aegypti
Don't give mosquitoes a place to mosquito from laying its eggs in
breed. A small amount of water can containers where you store water,
be enough for a mosquito to lay her keep it covered.
eggs.