Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by the Dengue virus. The cause of dengue fever is the Aedes mosquito that transmits the virus from an infected person to a healthy person. People with dengue fever can experience severe pain in their muscles and joints.

Prolonged hot weather interspersed with heavy rains is a favorable time for infectious diseases to break out on a large scale. The most dangerous of these are dengue fever and hand, foot and mouth disease.