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CONTROL AND
Fever PREVENTION
Avoid mosquito bites while you
Headache have a fever.
Muscle and joint pains
Don't let mosquitoes bite you. They
Nausea / vomiting can infect other members of your
Rash
Hemorrhagic manifestations
family with dengue after biting you.
Protect
Use mosquito barriers until the fever
If you have these symptoms, ask your
physician to order a test for dengue.
subsides, to prevent day-biting
mosquitoes from biting a sick person,
yourself
becoming infected, and then biting
Alarm signs: someone else. from
Intense abdominal pain Rest in a screened room or under a
Persistent vomiting bed net. mosquito
Abrupt change from fever to
hypothermia, with sweating and
prostration. Use insect repellents
insecticide indoors if
and spray
there are
bites and
Restlessness or somnolence.
AND PREVENTION
To eliminate
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mosquito breeding
Puerto Nuevo
risk of dengue,
Actual size of an
Eliminate any
containers where
the mosquito can lay
her eggs, either by
emptying the water, Immediately after the rain, SEARCH for and
covering them or
turning them upside down. Incorrect ELIMINATE all WATER accumulated in
containers and help your community to
Correct
Keep mosquitoes outside by fixing or PREVENT DENGUE.
installing window and door screens. In order to prevent the Aedes aegypti
Don't give mosquitoes a place to mosquito from laying its eggs in
breed. A small amount of water can containers where you store water,
be enough for a mosquito to lay her keep it covered.
eggs.