• African health sciences · Sep 2020

    Historical Article

    Dengue fever in the Corpus Hippocraticum.

    • Elias E Mazokopakis.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Naval Hospital of Crete, Chania, Greece.
    • Afr Health Sci. 2020 Sep 1; 20 (3): 1166-1167.

    AbstractDengue 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.© 2020 Mazokopakis EE.

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