Adjective modifier

• deadly: Infection with the dengue virus is not normally life-threatening, but in a minority of cases the potentially deadly dengue haemorrhagic fever ensues.

Modifies a noun

• fever: Health experts have known about dengue fever for more than 200 years.

• virus: A 5 ' RNA element promotes dengue virus RNA synthesis on a circular genome.

• infection: In parallel, they will follow 24,000 genes in each patient's DNA as they respond to dengue infection.

• syndrome: Dengue shock syndrome ( DSS ) results from leakage of plasma into the extravascular compartment.

• shock: Dengue shock syndrome ( DSS ) results from leakage of plasma into the extravascular compartment.

• outbreak: The last dengue outbreak to affect this city was in 2001.