{"id":67632,"date":"2024-04-26T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67632"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:45:21","slug":"dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67632","title":{"rendered":"Dengue fever is surging in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dengue fever is surging in Latin America<\/a><\/h3>\n

The number of people who succumb to the disease has been rising for two decades<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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F<\/span>or the<\/small>\u00a0second time in five years, Brazil\u2019s army is building field hospitals in the capital, Bras\u00edlia. The tents are accommodating a surge of patients from swamped emergency departments, as millions of Brazilians succumb to dengue fever that is spreading across the country. As with covid-19, the last disease to prompt the construction of field hospitals, many dengue infections are asymptomatic. The one-in-four people who do fall ill can suffer for several weeks with a painful condition known as break-bone fever. Unlike covid-19, the virus causing this wave of illness is carried by mosquitoes. As the climate warms, their range is expanding and the number of people they infect is increasing (see charts).<\/p>\n

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Dengue fever is surging in Latin America The number of people who succumb to the disease has been rising for two decades photograph: getty images For the\u00a0second time in five years, Brazil\u2019s army is building field hospitals in the capital, Bras\u00edlia. The tents are accommodating a surge of patients from swamped emergency departments, as millions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25455,1176,9620],"class_list":["post-67632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-dengue-fever","tag-latin-america","tag-the-economist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67633,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67632\/revisions\/67633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}