dengue hemorrhagic fever

dengue hemorrhagic fever
dengue hemorrhagic fever n dengue marked by hemorrhagic symptoms (as hemorrhagic lesions of the skin, thrombocytopenia, and reduction in the fluid part of the blood) called also hemorrhagic dengue

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hemorrhagic dengue.

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