Echo of a Tropical Fever: How Dengue Returns as Paralysis Seven Months Later
Hong Kong sits at a crossroads: tropical diseases arrive with travelers, while the local climate follows global cycles. In this city, from 2000 to 2016, two afflictions grew in different ways: dengue fever surged in sharp waves, while Guillain–Barré syndrome (acute paralysis, often after infections) crept upward slowly but steadily.