Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?
by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent, Tiago Rogero from Science | The Guardian on (#6RP2Q)
Cases of bonebreak fever' are on the rise, mostly in Latin America, Africa and south-east Asia. But incidences in Europe and the US are also being recorded - with an estimated 4 billion people at risk worldwide
The fatigue was so bad I couldn't stand, and that's terrible when you need to take care of a child, right? My head hurt, my eyes hurt - I couldn't keep them open for long," remembers Ana Luisa Braga.
The 38-year-old, a social worker and mother of a three-year-old, from Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state in Brazil, fell ill with dengue fever in March.
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