Dengue patients, along with their family members, are pictured at a hospital in Barguna in southern Bangladesh on June 22, 2025. - Photo: AFP
DHAKA: Mosquito-borne dengue fever was rarely a major problem in Bangladesh’s coastal districts, but some hospitals are so full of patients with the potentially deadly virus that some are treated on the floor.
As climate change drives erratic weather patterns, experts point to a dire lack of clean drinking water in the wider delta – where the snaking Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers reach the sea – as a likely driving force for the surge.
