FEVER SYMPTOMS |
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Once the virus enters the body, there is
an incubation period when the virus multiplies to a level high
enough to cause infection. This is followed by a prodromal phase of
fatigue, malaise and body and muscle aches that may lead to the
onset of fever. The fever may be low grade or high grade and
remittent. Inflammation of the pharynx, a running nose, nasal
congestion, headache, redness of the eyes, cough, muscle and joint
pains and a skin rash could be present.
The fatigue and body pain could be disproportionate to the level of
fever, and lymph glands may swell up. The illness is usually self-limited
but the fatigue and cough may persist for a few weeks. Sometimes
pneumonia, vomiting and diarrhoea, jaundice or arthritis (joint
swelling) may complicate the initial viral fever. Some viral fevers
are spread by insects, for example, arbovirus, can cause a bleeding
tendency, which results in bleeding from the skin and several other
internal organs and can be fatal. |
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