Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed Tokyo games it was Covid. And at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer? Take your pick. Authorities have been working to contain both dengue and measles, which have been on the rise in France and many other countries.

During this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics, millions of people from around the world will concentrate in the host city: French authorities are preparing to welcome more than 15 million visitors to the country. Even for a capital used to mass tourism—almost 40 million people visit Paris every year—this

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