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Jun 2024
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Surge of dengue in Latin America (Buy up...

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Today's story: Dengue fever is a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. Though it's not deadly in the vast majority of cases, about five percent of patients require hospitalization. And cases are surging in Latin America. There have been more dengue cases in four months of 2024 than in all of 2023. Governments are trying to stop the spread, but the tools for doing so are imperfect.

Learn this English expression: To 'buy something up' is to buy large quantities (maybe all that is available)

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