dengue hemorrhagic fever

dengue hemorrhagic fever A syndrome caused by the dengue virus that tends to affect children under age 10 and causes fever, headache, sore throat, cough, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bleeding, and circulatory collapse (shock). Other symptoms are bleeding with easy bruising, blood spots in the skin, vomiting of blood, blood in the stool, bleeding gums, and nosebleeds. Pneumonia and heart inflammation may also be present. Most deaths occur in children and infants are at particular risk.