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Cattledog

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Sun Mar 10, 2024, 03:00 AM Mar 2024

Brazil's staggering dengue fever crisis is a warning to the world [View all]

BRASÍLIA — Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed. Emergency room arguments over medication.

Not since the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic, when hospital systems all over this country ruptured under the weight of the disease, has Brazil witnessed such scenes. But this time, it’s not the coronavirus that has led states all over the country to declare a state of emergency and even spurred the construction of a field hospital in the nation’s capital of Brasília.
It’s dengue fever.

The disease is ripping through much of South America, where scientists say rising temperatures due to climate change have both extended the territorial range of the mosquito that carries dengue and increased its proliferation.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/10/dengue-fever-brazil-outbreak-epidemic/
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