Treating dengue more difficult with growing obesity: expertsExperts warned Friday (Dec.3,2010) that treating dengue, a potentially fatal disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, will become more difficult in the future as more people around the world become overweight and obese.
Dengue patients suffer from capillary permeability, when fluid leaks from their blood vessels into surrounding tissues, causing breathing difficulty and complications in major organs like the brain, liver and kidneys.
"The virus has an impact on the wall of the capillaries and allows more fluids to leave the tubes and into the tissues," said Jeremy Farrar, tropical medicine professor and director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam.
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