Latin America, Caribbean Set for Record Dengue Season

An Aedes aegypti mosquito sucks blood from a person at a laboratory of the Center for Parasitological and Vector Studies of the national scientific research institute CONICET, in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on March 26, 2024.

Latin America and the Caribbean should prepare for their worst dengue season ever, as global warming and the El Niño climate phenomenon fuel the mosquito-borne epidemic, a U.N. health agency warned Thursday.