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. 2020 Sep;20(3):1166-1167.
doi: 10.4314/ahs.v20i3.19.

Dengue fever in the Corpus Hippocraticum

Elias E Mazokopakis  1
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Dengue fever in the Corpus Hippocraticum

Elias E Mazokopakis. Afr Health Sci. 2020 Sep.

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.

Keywords: Corpus Hippocraticum; Dengue fever.

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