Dengue

Outbreak Hits Latin America

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 31st, 2000

Maria thought her son Cristian was over the worst. The five-year-old's fever was all but gone, his wiry black hair no longer dripped with sweat, and there was no trace of the crippling muscle pains that had left his tan body riving in agony for eight days.

But then the blood began to run from his nose, ooze from his lips, and trickle out of his throat. "We were noting that his color was much better and saying that he could go outside and play with his cousins," said Maria, a 33-year-old mother of five. "Then we were screaming and praying, 'Please God, save our little one.'"

Cristian, who was rushed to the hospital and eventually made a full...

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