Peru declares health emergency as dengue cases surge 95% across 20 regions

32 confirmed deaths from dengue with 8 additional deaths under investigation; over 17,000 confirmed cases affecting populations across 20 regions.

In the shadow of an unrelenting heat that erased winter from the calendar, Peru has declared a health emergency across twenty of its twenty-four regions, as dengue fever — carried by a mosquito thriving in the warmth — has claimed at least thirty-two lives and infected nearly twenty-five thousand people, nearly double the toll of the year before. The declaration is both an admission and an appeal: an admission that ordinary systems have buckled under the weight of an extraordinary convergence of climate and disease, and an appeal to citizens and institutions alike to meet the crisis with the c

Peru declares health emergency as dengue cases surge 95% across 20 regions

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