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In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. By mid-November, the death toll hit close to 1,500, as hospitals in the densely populated South Asian country struggled to cope with the surge in patients.
Neighbouring India is also experiencing more and more outbreaks, along with Sri Lanka to the south, where 60,000 cases of dengue
