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* Disease: The universal name for the disease is Dengue Fever. Other names that are commonly associated with this disease include: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ((DHF) Disease caused by Dengue Fever), Breakbone Fever, Dandy Fever, O'nyong-nyong Fever, Dengue shock syndrome (DSS) and Dengue-like Disease (5). Signs/Symptoms: The disease ranges from mild to severe. Mild dengue fever causes chills, high fever (that lasts about five to seven days), rash, severe headache, pain behind the eyes and muscle and joint pain (3, 4). The severe joint pain has given dengue the name Breakbone Fever (3).
Recently, Abhimanyu Singh (name changed), a resident of Basaveshwara Nagar was suspected of dengue fever and admitted in M S Ramaiah Hospital, one of the major hospitals in Bangalore. In one day, his blood platelet count dropped steeply, from 2.4 lakh to 56,000, symptomatic of dengue.ajor hospitals adopt Single Donor Platelet Apheresis-a process that enables extraction of up to 300 ml of platelets from a single donor in one go. This process injects the blood back to the donor's body, after extracting the platelets.