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Dengue fever is spreading ferociously across much of South America, forcing patients to languish on hospital floors as doctors become overwhelmed.

The disease has ripped through much of South America this year, and worse may be ahead as climate change expands the range of the mosquito carrying the virus.

Not since the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospital systems all over this country ruptured under the weight of the disease, has Brazil witnessed such scenes.

Scientists say rising temperatures due to climate change have both extended the territorial range of the mosquito that carries dengue and increased its proliferation.

BRAS LIA: Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed. Emergency room arguments over med...

BRAS LIA: Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed. Emergency room arguments over med...

Researchers from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center show for the first time that a gene usually linked to giant axonal neuropathy, a rare and s

Researchers from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center show for the first time that a gene usually linked to giant axonal neuropathy, a rare and severe neurological condition, also plays a role in inhibiting aggressive tumor cell growth in head and neck cancers.

Nearly four years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale Health will end its COVID Resource Line, move COVID-19 information away from a specified website to the Campus Health website and stop collecting positive case reports.

Health experts are warning of an anticipated surge of Dengue Fever in North and South America. The potentially deadly, mosquito-borne disease is currently spreading across Brazil. Dr. Albert Ko, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, joined CBS News to discuss the illness. Source