The explosive spread of dengue offers a case study in how climate change, human movement, and rising temperatures are all coaligning to fuel the expansion of potentially deadly threats to human health. This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that bythis year during the country's worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease.
By mid-November, the death toll hit close to 1,500, as hospitals in the densely populated South Asian country struggled to cope with the surge in patients., cases rose more than 330 per cent in 2023 compared to 2022, and Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru are also reporting high rates of infection