Dengue Outbreak in Latin America: My Firsthand Experience

A Dispatch From Argentina’s Dengue Epidemic Hi, it’s Patrick in Buenos Aires. Latin America has recently been ravaged by dengue. I experienced the impact of the epidemic firsthand. But before we get to that … My breath suspended before translating the doctor’s diagnosis. After hours at a packed hospital in Buenos Aires, my parents and I finally got in front of an emergency room medic with the test results. She breezed through all the numbers as I followed her sentence …