A plant in São Paulo produces about 500,000 mosquitoes a week to help annihilate Aedes aegypti, the principal vector of dengue. It is the first factory in the world of its kind. Brazil is the country most affected by the disease. 

Thousands of parrots, monkeys, iguanas, toucans, turtles and other rain forest animals are kept as exotic pets in the Central American country, and experts say that’s not good. 

The Guatemalan government estimates that 200,000 families are threatened with starvation due to the deficit of rainfall in the rainy season.  A state of public calamity was declared for a month, during which the government aims to get the necessary assistance to the victims.