Dengue一词,来源于西班牙语Danga(装腔作势)。英语为Dandy-fever(公子热)。都是形容本病急性期由于关节疼痛,其步态有装腔作势的样子。Daberti1779年在埃及开罗首先描述登革热,同年Beylon在印尼雅加达也描写了此病,并名为关节热。1780年Rush在美国费城称之为骨折热,都是以症状命名。直至1869年英国伦敦皇家内科学会才命名为登革热。登革热曾有多次大流行。如1922年美国南部各州发生1百万至2百万例,1925年在 The word Dengue, derived from the Spanish Danga (Poser). English is Dandy-fever. Are described as the acute stage of the disease due to joint pain, the gait posed for the look. Daberti 1779 years in the first draft of the patent pending Du Cuan hot, the same year Beylon also described the disease in Jakarta, Indonesia, and called the joint fever. Rush in Philadelphia in 1780 called fractures in the United States, are symptoms. Until 1869 the Royal Society of London, London was named Dengue. There have been several pandemics of dengue fever. For example, 1 to 2 million cases occurred in the southern states of the United States in 1922, which was in 1925