How to Use dengue in a Sentence

dengue

noun

• West Nile virus and dengue can be confirmed with a blood test.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• There are four species of the virus — numbered dengue 1 through 4.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• As cholera, dengue, and malaria spread, that will only get worse.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2019
• The bad news is that there’s no specific treatment for dengue fever.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
• The same thing is true for viruses like dengue, which is a tropical virus.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2020
• The country recorded just 281 dengue deaths for all of last year.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• About 1 in 20 people can get severe dengue, which can lead to death.
  — Sandra Lilley, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Still, researchers have warned that the peak of the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh is yet to come.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• This year, the rains arrived early — and the number of dengue patients spiked.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The global dengue burden is growing.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• Severe dengue can lead to internal bleeding, shock, and even death.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 23 Apr. 2018
• Some cases of dengue fever can result in a rare hemorrhagic form that can kill.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• Those who have had dengue in the past are more likely to develop severe symptoms.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 2 July 2024
• In recent years dengue fever has been on the rise in the Florida Keys.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2015
• Key West saw its first modern dengue outbreak in 2009.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• That has made the microbe a promising strategy for fighting dengue.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
• They have been known to spread dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
• The dengue virus transmission cycle.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• People who catch dengue more than once can be at risk of a hemorrhagic version of the disease.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• Diseases like malaria and dengue are spreading into new regions.
  — Vanessa Kerry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
• Those in the South have been witnessing a rising number of cases of dengue fever.
  — Gary W. Yohe, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
• In addition to being able to spread dengue, these insects are a major nuisance.
  — Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
• In the past 50 years, dengue cases have increased 30-fold, the authors write in the study.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
• The species in the study is the same kind of mosquito that spreads viruses such as dengue and chikungunya among humans.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• In cases of dengue, the body aches and joint pain can be so severe that the illness is commonly known as breakbone fever.
  — Matthew Binnicker, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• For each of the previous 15 years, Townsville had recorded a dengue outbreak.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Health experts predict diseases such as dengue and chikungunya will return.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
• The difference between no local dengue and a little local dengue is not a matter of degree.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• In a place where dengue has never been endemic, the diagnosis requires someone to think of it first.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• Early deployments in cities such as Niterói have now reduced dengue fever by nearly 90%.
  — New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2025