How to Use dengue in a Sentence

dengue

noun

• In recent years dengue fever has been on the rise in the Florida Keys.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2015
• Infants, the elderly and pregnant people are most at risk of contracting severe dengue.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 3 July 2024
• Experts say severe dengue can occur resulting in shock, internal bleeding, and death.
  — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 1 July 2024
• If one mutation creates a dud protein, as happened with dengue, the virus can survive because of other viruses in the swarm that have a good copy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015
• San Diego’s first local dengue case was severe enough to require a hospital stay, county officials said.
  — Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Like the Zika virus, dengue has no symptoms for the majority of those who contract it (roughly three-quarters).
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2017
• There is no evidence of a dengue outbreak in the continental United States.
  — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• Mosquitoes infected with it in laboratory studies are unable to transmit dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever.
  — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
• Decades of research has established that Aedes aegypti, a species of mosquito that carries yellow fever, Zika, dengue and chikungunya, thrives in warmer climates.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 24 May 2017
• There are four species of the virus — numbered dengue 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• Still, researchers have warned that the peak of the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh is yet to come.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• West Nile virus and dengue can be confirmed with a blood test.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• In the past 50 years, dengue cases have increased 30-fold, the authors write in the study.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• There are four serotypes of dengue, numbered 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 July 2023
• The country recorded just 281 dengue deaths for all of last year.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• There is no dengue vaccine available for adults in the US.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• The worst-case scenario would be what happens with dengue.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• The dengue cases this year are 50% higher than last year.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• About 1 in 20 people can get severe dengue, which can lead to death.
  — Sandra Lilley, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
• The newest risk to the U.S. is dengue fever, the instances of which have skyrocketed in 2024.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 3 July 2024
• As cholera, dengue, and malaria spread, that will only get worse.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2019
• This year, the rains arrived early — and the number of dengue patients spiked.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The same thing is true for viruses like dengue, which is a tropical virus.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2020
• When dengue broke out in Dakar in 2009, the city’s Lebanese population was hit the hardest.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
• In Africa, climate change has led to more hunger, malaria, dengue fever and flooding, Mr. Taalas said.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• There were more cases of dengue in Latin America in the first half of this year — more than three million — than in all of 2022.
  — Stephanie Nolen Malin Fezehai, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• For each of the previous 15 years, Townsville had recorded a dengue outbreak.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• The species in the study is the same kind of mosquito that spreads viruses such as dengue and chikungunya among humans.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• Globally, new cases of dengue have been the highest on record, according to the CDC.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 10 July 2024
• Those who have had dengue in the past are more likely to develop severe symptoms.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024