6.1. Symptoms:◾High fever (up to 40.6 C) ◾Severe headache with retro-orbital (behind the eye) pain ◾Severe joint and muscle pain ◾Nausea and vomiting ◾Body rash which appears on day 3 or 4 Symptoms of more severe Dengue:◾Severe bleeding from the nose, gums, or under the skin causing purplish bruises
6.2. Extreme cases can result in death.
7. Ideas
8. Action Points
8.1. Life cycle of a Dengue mosquito compared to the life cycle of a cockroach.
8.2. Differences:The cockroach does not have a pupae stage while a Dengue Mosquito does. The Dengue Mosquito lays eggs singly while the cockroach lays eggs in sacs of multiple eggs.
8.3. Similarities
8.4. Both have a nymph/larvae stage. Both only develop their wings after the nymph/larvae stage.
