For the second one time in 5 years, Brazil’s military is construction box hospitals within the capital, Brasília. The tents are accommodating a surge of sufferers from swamped emergency departments, as hundreds of thousands of Brazilians succumb to dengue fever this is spreading around the nation. As with covid-19, the remaining illness to suggested the development of box hospitals, many dengue infections are asymptomatic. The only-in-four individuals who do fall unwell can endure for a number of weeks with a painful situation referred to as break-bone fever. Not like covid-19, the virus inflicting this wave of sickness is carried through mosquitoes. Because the local weather warms, their vary is increasing and the choice of other people they infect is expanding (see charts).
Chart: The Economist
