Bali has various type of fruits mostly tropical fruits such as papaya, banana, pineapple, orange, mango, red guava, apple  etc. Snake fruit, star fruit, jack fruit are example of fruits you can not find in sub tropic country.  Handicrafters in Bali turn these shape of fruits into lovely handicrafts, the basic material is usually from wood. You can find this type of handicraft in Tegalalang - Gianyar Regency or in Sukawati Traditional Market. Below is a short description of Balinese's fruits :

SNAKE FRUIT
Snake fruit mostly can be found in Karangasem Regency, since the soil around this are is suitable for snake fruit plant. The shape of snake fruit is oval and sharpen at tip of the fruit, the color is dark brown to light brown it’s depend on the type of the snake fruit. The skin of this fruit is similar with snake that is why they call a snake fruit. Taste of snake fruit is mixed of sour & sweet and feels little bit crunchy when it chewed.

STAR FRUIT
It is obvious the star fruit has a star shape, the taste of this fruit is combination of sweet & sour. Mostly star fruit can be planted in the backyard or front yard of Balinese People house. Star fruit usually used as “rujak” combination of star fruit and other fruits with “sambal” some kind of sauce , this sauce is made from Balinese sweet, salt, chili and other ingredients.  The color of star fruit usually light green to yellow, in Indonesian or Balinese we call it “belimbing”, actually there are 2 types of belimbing one is star fruit the other is wuluh (belimbing wuluh). The shape of belimbing wuluh is oval and usually can be mixed with “pepes” one of Balinese menu (fish mixed with certain Balinese sauce and wrapped with banana leaf).

JACK FRUIT
Major characteristic taste of jack fruit is sweet and has lovely yellow color. Jack fruit can be planted anywhere at the backyard or elsewhere where the space remains wider.  The plant of jackfruit growing high and need more space at the top of the tree compare than the other Balinese fruits. Young jack fruit can be made as vegetable with special Balinese spicy sauce its call “jukut nangka”, young jack fruit is also one of “lawar” ingredient  the famous Balinese meal. Ripe jack fruit is can be mixed with “kolak” some kind of dessert made from coconut cream, banana, sugar and other ingridients. Since taste of jack fruit is sweet this fruit can be directly eaten.

RED WATER APPLE
Sour, little bit sweet , crispy and juicy are characteristics of the water apple. Red water apple is widely cultivated by Balinese people, chiefly in rural areas where the space remains wider.  Water apple has some variants in terms of its color. They are light magenta red, light green, white and brown.

Dengue fever (IPA: /ˈdɛŋg/) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics and Africa, and caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae.[1] The geographical spread is similar to malaria, but unlike malaria, dengue is often found in urban areas of tropical nations, including Trinidad and Tobago Puerto Rico, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Brazil and Venezuela. Each serotype is sufficiently different that there is no cross-protection and epidemics caused by multiple serotypes (hyperendemicity) can occur. Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti (rarely Aedes albopictus) mosquito, which feeds during the day.[2]

This is manifested by a sudden onset of with severe headache, muscle and joint pains (myalgias and arthralgias—severe pain gives it the name break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease) and rashes. The dengue rash is characteristically bright red petechiae and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest; in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.

Other symptoms include

    * fever;
    * chills;
    * constant headaches;
    * bleeding from nose, mouth or gums;
    * severe dizziness; and,
    * loss of appetite.

Some cases develop much milder symptoms which can be misdiagnosed as influenza or other viral infection when no rash is present. Thus travelers from tropical areas may pass on dengue in their home countries inadvertently, having not been properly diagnosed at the height of their illness. Patients with dengue can pass on the infection only through mosquitoes or blood products and only while they are still febrile.

The classic dengue fever lasts about six to seven days, with a smaller peak of fever at the trailing end of the disease (the so-called "biphasic pattern"). Clinically, the platelet count will drop until the patient's temperature is normal.

Cases of DHF also show higher fever, haemorrhagic phenomena, thrombocytopenia, and haemoconcentration. A small proportion of cases lead to dengue shock syndrome (DSS) which has a high mortality rate.

Epidemiology

World-wide dengue distribution, 2006. Red: Epidemic dengue. Blue: Aedes aegypti.
World-wide dengue distribution, 2006. Red: Epidemic dengue. Blue: Aedes aegypti.
World-wide dengue distribution, 2000
World-wide dengue distribution, 2000

The first epidemics occurred almost simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and North America in the 1780s. The disease was identified and named in 1779. A global pandemic began in Southeast Asia in the 1950s and by 1975 DHF had become a leading cause of death among many children in many countries in that region. Epidemic dengue has become more common since the 1980s. By the late 1990s, dengue was the most important mosquito-borne disease affecting humans after malaria, there being around 40 million cases of dengue fever and several hundred thousand cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever each year. There was a serious outbreak in Rio de Janeiro in February 2002 affecting around one million people and killing sixteen.

On March 20, 2008, the secretary of health of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Côrtes, announced that 23,555 cases of dengue, including 30 deaths, had been recorded in the state in less than three months. Côrtes said, "I am treating this as an epidemic because the number of cases is extremely high." Federal Minister of Health José Gomes Temporão also announced that he was forming a panel to respond to the situation. Cesar Maia, mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, denied that there was serious cause for concern, saying that the incidence of cases was in fact declining from a peak at the beginning of February. [6] By April 3, 2008, the number of cases reported rose to 55,000 [7]

Significant outbreaks of dengue fever tend to occur every five or six months. The cyclicity in numbers of dengue cases is thought to be the result of seasonal cycles interacting with a short-lived cross-immunity for all four strains, in people who have had dengue (Wearing and Rohani 2006). When the cross-immunity wears off, the population is then more susceptible to transmission whenever the next seasonal peak occurs. Thus in the longer term of several years, there tend to remain large numbers of susceptible people in the population despite previous outbreaks because there are four different strains of the dengue virus and because of new susceptible individuals entering the target population, either through childbirth or immigration.

There is significant evidence, originally suggested by S.B. Halstead in the 1970s, that dengue hemorrhagic fever is more likely to occur in patients who have secondary infections by serotypes different from the primary infection. One model to explain this process is known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), which allows for increased uptake and virion replication during a secondary infection with a different strain. Through an immunological phenomenon, known as original antigenic sin, the immune system is not able to adequately respond to the stronger infection, and the secondary infection becomes far more serious.[8] This process is also known as superinfection (Nowak and May 1994; Levin and Pimentel 1981).

In Singapore, there are about 4,000–5,000 reported cases of dengue fever or dengue haemorrhagic fever every year. In the year 2003, there were six deaths from dengue shock syndrome.[citation needed] It is believed that the reported cases of dengue are an underrepresentation of all the cases of dengue as it would ignore subclinical cases and cases where the patient did not present for medical treatment. With proper medical treatment, the mortality rate for dengue can therefore be brought down to less than 1 in 1000.[citation needed]

 Prevention

Vaccine development

There is no commercially available vaccine for the dengue flavivirus. However, one of the many ongoing vaccine development programs is the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative which was set up in 2003 with the aim of accelerating the development and introduction of dengue vaccine(s) that are affordable and accessible to poor children in endemic countries.[9] Thai researchers are testing a dengue fever vaccine on 3,000–5,000 human volunteers after having successfully conducted tests on animals and a small group of human volunteers.[10] A number of other vaccine candidates are entering phase I or II testing.[11]

Mosquito control
A field technician looking for larvae in standing water containers during the 1965 Aedes aegypti eradication program in Miami, Florida. In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, Aedes aegypti, from southeast United States. Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library
A field technician looking for larvae in standing water containers during the 1965 Aedes aegypti eradication program in Miami, Florida. In the 1960s, a major effort was made to eradicate the principal urban vector mosquito of dengue and yellow fever viruses, Aedes aegypti, from southeast United States. Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library

Primary prevention of dengue mainly resides in mosquito control. There are two primary methods: larval control and adult mosquito control. In urban areas, Aedes mosquitos breed on water collections in artificial containers such as plastic cups, used tires, broken bottles, flower pots, etc. Continued and sustained artificial container reduction or periodic draining of artificial containers is the most effective way of reducing the larva and thereby the aedes mosquito load in the community. Larvicide treatment is another effective way of control the vector larvae but the larvicide chosen should be long lasting and preferably have World Health Organization clearance for use in drinking water. There are some very effective insect growth regulators (IGR's) available which are both safe and long lasting (e.g. pyriproxyfen). For reducing the adult mosquito load, fogging with insecticide is somewhat effective.

Prevention of mosquito bites is another way of preventing disease. This can be achieved either by personal protection or by using mosquito nets. In 1998, scientists from the Queensland Institute of Research in Australia and Vietnam's Ministry of Health introduced a scheme that encouraged children to place a water bug, the crustacean Mesocyclops, in water tanks and discarded containers where the Aedes aegypti mosquito was known to thrive. This method is viewed as being more cost-effective and more environmentally friendly than pesticides, though not as effective, and requires the ongoing participation of the community.[12]

Personal protection

Personal prevention consists of the use of mosquito nets, repellents containing NNDB or DEET, covering exposed skin, use of DEET-impregnated bednets, and avoiding endemic areas.

Potential antiviral approaches

In cell culture experiments[13] and mice [14][15] Morpholino antisense oligos have shown specific activity against Dengue virus.

The yellow fever vaccine (YF-17D) is a vaccine for a related Flavivirus,[clarify] thus the chimeric replacement of yellow fever vaccine with dengue has been often suggested[clarify] but no full scale studies have been conducted to date.[16]

In 2006, a group of Argentine scientists discovered the molecular replication mechanism of the virus, which could be attacked by disruption of the polymerase's work.[17]

(Article is taken from Wikipedia)

HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE MOSQUITO NET

1. Mosquito nett has  some types such as  box/rectangular mosquito net, circular/bell mosquito net,  wedge or dome/self supporting mosquito net. Try to choose which one of these type of nets that suit to your bed (based on availability space & sizes of your bed).

2.  The size of the holes determines what size of insects are kept out and airflow and hence the temperature that the inside of the net reaches.

3. Choosed the right fabric for your mosquito net., there are some of choices of mosquito net fabric's such as nylon, polyester, cotton and rayon.

4. Determine whether or not you want a pre-treated fabric: fabrics treated with Permethrin can help to keep mosquitoes at bay.

5. Determine how much volume you want inside your mosquito net. Keep in mind that the more space you have, the more comfortable things will be for you inside the net.

6. Once you have found the right mosquito net for you, follow the manufacturer's directions to learn how to install it or hang it over your bed.


TIPS & WARNINGS

    * A Box/Rectangular Net gives you the most space, but requires multiple places to secure the net.
    * A Bell/circular mosquito net can be attached to the ceiling into a single point.
    * A Wedge Net is great for camping cots and other temporary settings.
    * A Dome or Self-Supporting Net is easy to pack away and great for camping trips.
    * Make sure you store your mosquito net properly when it is not in use.