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Ep 42 Dandy Dengue Fever

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Origins of Dengue

The word dengue first seems to pop up in Spain around 1801. The Swahili name for the disease is key dengue peppo, meaning a sudden cramp like seizure caused by an evil spirit. It was called dengue or dengue from the early 19th century on. But it had a lot of other names including water poison and brake bone fever.

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