Brazil looks to short-term and long-term strategies to fight a disease so painful it’s known as “breakbone fever.” The outbreak is part of a global wave of dengue triggered in part by climate change.
tl;dr: at ~1M cases in first 2 months of 2024; vs 1.6M all of 2023.:
“At least six Brazilian states in addition to the Federal District are facing dengue epidemics and 17 cities have declared a state of emergency as the country has already registered 1 million cases of dengue in the first two months of 2024, more than half the 1.6 million cases confirmed last year — which was already almost 18% higher than in 2022. The fatality count in those same two months was 214.”
