Examples from literature

• Dengue, a disease peculiar to the tropics, occurs in hot weather, and attacks one suddenly with high fever and violent pains, and after a relapse returns in a milder form and leaves the patient very weak. 
• It was simple malaria, known in the Southwest as dengue fever. 
• Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and bubonic plague may be caught in this way. 
• Toward ten o'clock, however, the monsoon veered, and, wing-and-wing, the old boat, creaking in every joint as if she had the dengue, grunted her way over flashing combers with a speed that seemed almost indecent.