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In Argentina, where infection rates are up ~800% over one year, “People are making their own home remedies because the truth is there is no repellent anywhere,” a supermarket chain manager told Bloomberg this week. The country’s government loosened its restrictions for bug spray imports on Monday, but it might take another week and a half for shelves to be restocked.
In the meantime: SC Johnson (owner of the Off! brand) donated 20,000 cans of repellent to Argentina on Tuesday after seeing an “unprecedented” 300% spike in demand from the same time last year.
Bug spray scalpers are reselling mosquito repellent via the online marketplace MercadoLibre for $20/can—a 500% markup. And that’s just Argentina!!
Of the 3.5 million people in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina who have already contracted dengue this year, 83% of them were in Brazil. Public health experts are also worried by rates rising in areas where outbreaks don’t typically occur.
Suspected dengue cases in Peru have tripled from the same period last year to ~135,000, and registered deaths have increased from 33 to 117.
Infections are climbing at popular vacation destinations, including Barbados, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique, and Mexico, according to the Pan American Health Association.
Why is this happening? Epidemiologists say climate change and El Niño are playing right into mosquitos’ forelegs by making more regions warmer and wetter (aka skeeters’ paradise).
Regarding a vaccine…Brazil became the first country to roll out a public dengue vax program this year, but it only has enough to immunize 3.3 million of its 220 million citizens. A more accessible shot is at least a year away from production...
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