breakbone fever

Japanese: breakbone fever(英語表記)breakbonefever
breakbone fever

...The virus is a flavivirus 15-33 nm long, and after an incubation period of 5-8 days, it suddenly begins with high fever, chills, severe headache, and pain in the back and limbs. It is also called breakbone fever because of the severe muscle and joint pain, and dandy fever because the joint pain causes the patient to walk in a pretentious manner. The fever lasts for 2-3 days, and after a period of subsidence, the fever returns after about 2 days, showing a biphasic pattern, and then a few days later the fever subsides (rapidly subsiding with profuse sweating), but some types of the disease do not show a biphasic pattern. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "breakbone fever" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ウイルスは長さ15~33nmのフラビウイルスで,潜伏期5~8日の後,突然の高熱,悪寒,激しい頭痛,背や四肢の疼痛で発症する。とくに筋痛や関節痛がひどいために骨折熱breakbone feverとか,関節痛によって〈気どった〉歩き方になるため〈だて者熱dandy fever〉などともいわれる。発熱は2~3日続き,いったん下熱した後,2日ほどして再び発熱する2相型を示し,数日後に分利下熱(大量の発汗を伴って急速に下熱すること)するが,病型によっては2相型を示さないものもある。…

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