The other virus that’s out of control: Dengue Fever

From the article:



From 560,000 in 2018 to 3.1 million in 2019.

Yeah that’s fucked.

reviously unknown strain of coronavirus has dominated headlines in recent weeks, and alarmed public health officials with its rapid spread and virulent nature. But it’s really no surprise to the scientists who study infectious disease: it’s just one of several pathogens that have the potential to reach calamitous status.
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I had dengue fever twice. In 2007 and again in 2010. The second time I didn’t necessarily feel worse but the doctor seemed worried. For the second bout I had to call all my friends for blood when the doctor told me I needed to get some plasma in me. The first time I had it my platelet count got low but the second time it got scary low, at least to the doctor. I didn’t really know what was happening besides the doctor looking worried. At one point she told me not to brush my teeth in case my gums bled, that they wouldn’t stop. So I asker her what happens this weekend when I get my period? Her answer: “don’t have it”. That freaked me out a little.

So after all the suffering and plasma infusions, I am let out to go home. I spent a couple of days at home until one day I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror and saw myself whiter than I’ve ever seen. It scared the hell out of me, I called my dad right away to take me back to the hospital. So I spent a few more days there before I went home again. Thank heavens for the cheap medical care here, I think I spent about two weeks in the hospital total and it only cost somewhere between two and three grand, I don’t even remember exactly.

Headaches from hell, can’t get comfortable and so weak you can’t really move or talk without great effort. It’s the same weakness of the flu times ten but thankfully without vomiting and diarrhea, at least for me. By the time you find out you have dengue you have probably already taken a bunch of NSAIDs for the pain and this makes your platelet count plummet even more than the dengue on its own. That’s what got me both times.

I've had it twice.

The experts lied.

Get Dengue a few times and you most likely won't have a cold for eight years.

80 degrees in my place and I was freezing my butt off.

Proofs?

I didn't have a cold for 8 years.
I asked others and similar.

I would like to see a study, I think they could make a vaccine.

Getting cubed is pretty fucked. I did that one last night.

I didn’t know about the increased risk of bleeding and complications from a second infection while it was happening. If I had it would have been scary as hell considering how bad I felt. My whole right upper thigh actually turned purple at one point after doing an injection for the pain. I was wondering why the doctor seemed so worried since I had already had it once and didn’t have any problems.

And?...........

yes, maybe they could make a vaccine from your plasma.

And it may not be the experts who lied, but the fear mongers of GLP just typically spread rumors or hearsays as fact, not even bother to find study to back it up.

I've got dengue once, 2 decades ago. Never get it again even when bitten by mosquitoes while plenty around the neighborhood were stricken with it. And, yes, very very seldom get cold anymore, perhaps due to change to the plant based nutrition?

Dengue is hot climate virus while corona a cold climate one. mosquitoes are quite active biting in a hot day and get lazy or deactivated in a colder air.

I'm a 3x Dengue fever survivor last time was the worst as it started to go Hemorrhagic. Last time was in December-Jan 2017. Right now I'm experiencing some severe pain that feels much like the pain I felt when I had Dengue, but I've also had Chikungunya 2x and that is known to relapse even years later. I just spent too much time working on vector control in hot zones. Well at least I've only had Zika 1 time.... Left the tropics in June of 2018 didn't wish to push my luck any further.

Last Edited by Michael. on 02/20/2020 09:25 PM

3 times? Oh god. I feel for you. I caught it once and that sickness was enough for a lifetime. I will never forget the vomiting, unable to eat or drink for days and just sleeping and being almost invalid

Congratulations on your gue thread!

This map will tell you where all the bad shit is in the world.

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yeah its a PITA and everywhere else. BTW Bitter melon extract and young Papaya leaf tea really helps with recovery.

Not to down play this, but isnt this a yearly trend with this virus???

Had dengue once, terrible, two weeks in the hospital, had to be washed and fed, blood platelet count went so low they wanted to move me to ICU, it's a real bitch, the head aches are incredible, the muscle pains.... And after a few days when you think you're getting better, that's when it hits....

Not long after that, on the way to discovery I started to lose weight, serious weight, terrible abdominal pains, turned out I had something called tropical sprue which is SUPER rare, where you lose almost all the villi in your intestines so you're body doesn't take in any kind of food anymore, went from around 160 pounds to 90 pounds and was told I had about two years to live at the most. Shitting blood and pus all the time, losing teeth, went through pure hell for 8 years and then, around 10 years ago, all of a sudden I got better. Doctors in Holland were baffled, couldn't explain it.... It's so rare that there's very little research... The only thing that cures it (only for a while if you stay in the tropics) is heavy doses of broad spectrum antibiotics which destroys your body by it self...

I was a very strong guy before all that happened but that shit took my strength away, weight came back but all in my belly instead of my upper body :) And I'm convinced it all started with that godawful dengue fever....

The way I got better, and my wife pregnant after trying to get pregnant without success for nearly 15 years is a bit of a miracle, you folks wouldn't believe it if I told you how that happened :)

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Papaya leaf and Guava/Guava leaf have been proven to make recovery from dengue much faster. In fact I happened to read the study. I bet those two leaves as the wide spectrum anti-virus can also act against Coronavirus.

Also Papaya seeds have been proven to kill worms in an African study. So, both Papaya and Guava are both potent anti-parasite and also highly nutritious fruits.

I rather get known dengue than unknown fucky Corona any day.

Last Edited by Patagonians on 02/20/2020 11:39 PM

From a Mosquito ....Haven't seen one of those things in like well ...EVER..

In the desert..i keep hearing about them...but none here...

I remember when I got Dengue and stayed in hospital, I recovered a bit faster without reaching the low thrombocyte requiring blood transfusion. Next to my hospital bed was another one with dengue, apparently a Jehovah Witness, who got plenty of visit from another JWs. I noticed he needed to have blood transfusion and they had a bit of trouble seeking for AB blood though they finally found it. One thing I noticed from that experience is, if you're calm, you'll recuperate faster, but if you're still busy getting attentive to things just like this JW for having to entertain many visits from another JWs, you may have more troublesome recovery like having your thrombocytes (with coagualtion factor for clotting) so low that needs blood transfusion to prevent bleeding.

I was thinking today of how nice it would be to live someplace where it was warm all year round... Thanks folks for curing me of that silly daydream.
May you all have fair winds and good health for the rest of your lives.

I had dengue in Guatemala- it hit so fast, I'vee never seen anything like it. I felt a little 'off', drove about 20 minutes up the mountain to where I was going to have breakfast with my 13 year old daughter. AS soon as I got there, I told her, I can't get out of the car. We have to go home.

Got home. WEnt to sleep and woke up 24 hours later with the neighbor (EMT) and a doctor at the door of my bedroom, trying to get me to wake up while they were taking blood pressure, etc.

Seriously thought I was going to die. Temperature so high, body aches that I can't describe, absolutely no energy, and completely not wanting to move.

It became complicated when I also got pneumonia. Thank God for neighbors, workers, and the home-visiting doctors. They made me drink all kinds of things that I didn't want to, and, it was over a week before I could leave my bedroom to go downstairs.

Dengue is a hell of an illness.

I had waist-length, thick, auburn hair (I'm female) and it started falling out in clumps with this. I lost so much weight and was so white, the neighbors were so concerned- they kept visiting and helping with the house and kids.

Its part of the reason I'm back in the states, I was told I would not survive it a second time.

Hey minorities, heads up... ertain white peeps and their minions are studying diseases at labs around the world, all of these diseases are endemic to your shit holes of origin As a self preservation mode, you might wanna look into the home addresses of people like bill gates and oprah.. and send send the heartfelt letters of gratitude expressing your feelingsof thankfullness for their efforts to “help” you...

Lived in Costa Rica and got dengue once. Worst few days of my life. I was hallucinating for a solid 10 hours from high fever. I started crawling out of my house down to the main road and passed out in a ditch. Woke up the next morning and the fever broke, felt a little weak but much better. Crazy crazy illness. I never want it again

In 1995 My Team Medic, while we were deployed for U.N.M.I.H. Haiti, got hit with Dengue fever, and we thought we were about to lose him. We sent him back to Conus Walter Reed, and he pulled thru and rejoined us once re redeployed.

Dengue is fucking joke.

Last Edited by Lupe_Ate_My_Taco's on 02/21/2020 12:40 AM