The Intelligence: Dengue’s grip on Latin America
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The dengue-fever case counts now break regional records every year—and the structural reasons behind the spike suggest this sometimes-deadly virus will soon threaten more of the world. Breaches and security holes keep revealing how much of the internet’s innards are maintained by volunteers; we ask why (09:45). And the case for moving over, not up, at work (17:10).
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