Dengue fever in the Corpus Hippocraticum |
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Authors: | Elias E Mazokopakis |
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Affiliation: | Department of Internal Medicine, Naval Hospital of Crete, Chania, Greece |
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Abstract: | Dengue fever (DF) is a globally significant infection which causes a range of severe and non-severe clinical manifestations. It is transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus (primarily Aedes aegypti, but also Aedes albopictus). In this letter, a possible DF epidemic on Thasos Island in Greece, which is described in the Book of Epidemics I of the Corpus Hippocraticum, is presented and analyzed. To my knowledge, it is the first report of DF in the history of medicine. |
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Keywords: | Dengue fever Corpus Hippocraticum |
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