The severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever, involves a high temperature, head and muscle aches, internal bleeding and, at worst, circulatory failure.

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If ingested, it causes nausea, vomiting and internal bleeding of the stomach and intestines, followed by failure of the liver, spleen and kidneys, and death by collapse of the circulatory system.

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