What’s Really Happening to Your Platelets During Dengue? First, let me paint the picture. Dengue fever doesn’t just give you a high temperature and body aches—it messes with your blood. Specifically, it attacks your platelet count, which normally sits somewhere between 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. When the dengue virus crashes your […]

What Exactly Is Tomato Flu Anyway? So first things first: tomato flu (also called tomato fever) isn’t some new pandemic nightmare. It’s actually a viral infection that mostly affects kids under 5 years old. The name comes from the red, tomato-like blisters that show up on the skin—pretty straightforward when you think about it. Health […]