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breakbone fever
noun
Dengue fever.
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The pain can be so excruciating that the virus has a commonly invoked nickname: breakbone fever.
The illness, also called breakbone fever, can be excruciating, with high fevers, headaches, muscle and joint pains and lingering weakness.
Dengue, also called breakbone fever or dandy fever, acute, infectious, mosquito-borne fever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal.
Besides fever, the disease is characterized by an extreme pain in and stiffness of the joints (hence the name "breakbone fever").
Up to 100 million people are infected with dengue each year; it is known as "breakbone fever" for the joint pain it causes.
In acute cases, it causes high fever and debilitating lethargy, accompanied by joint pain so intense that the disease was called "breakbone fever" when it was first diagnosed more than 300 years ago.
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