Bangladesh is struggling to stop the rise in dengue cases as a result of climate change turning the disorder into a year-round issue, which means some geriatric wards are crowded with children squeezed two to a mattress.
Dengue is spread by the Aedes mosquito, which breeds in stagnant pools and is recognizable by its black and white stripes on its arms.
” Usually, around this time, we may believe the movement of people to ebb”, said Fazlul Haque, walking through a hospital crowded with dengue patients at Dhaka’s Shaheed Sohrawardi Medical College.
” For the last three days, the number of dengue cases has been increasing”.
” We get mosquito people nearly every month”, said Sabina Tabassum Anika, the doctor running the family’s mosquito hospital.
We’re adding two kids to each hospital bed because there are more cases than in previous decades.
Last month, Bangladesh recorded 134 deaths from mosquito, the deadliest quarter this year, taking the total in 2024 to 326.
Cases are lower than last year, when more than 1, 000 died, but mosquito murders are now being recorded almost every month, doctors say.