The Chippewa County Health Department is passing on a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC has received reports of Dengue Fever among relief workers returning from Haiti, where the disease is prevalent. Dengue Fever is a disease spread by a certain species of mosquito, commonly found in tropical and subtropical regions.

Signs of Dengue Fever may show three to fifteen days after being bitten. Symptoms include chills, headache, pain when moving the eyes, pain in the lower back and joints, temperature up to 104 degrees, redden eyes and a pink rash that appears and then disappears on the face.

If any of these symptoms are present you are asked to seek medical help immediately.  When reporting to a doctor's office or medical clinic, advise the staff that you have recently travelled to Haiti.

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