Remember the mad dash to find hand sanitizer when the pandemic started? Well, Argentinians are having deja vu: Latin America is dealing with what may be the world’s worst dengue epidemic ever, and one of the hardest-hit countries just ran out of mosquito repellent.

In Argentina, where infection rates are up ~800% over one year, “People are making their own home remedies because the truth is there is no repellent anywhere,” a supermarket chain manager told Bloomberg this week. The country’s government loosened its restrictions for bug spray imports on Monday, but it might take another week and a half for shelves to be restocked.

In the meantime:

• SC Johnson (owner of the Off! brand) donated 20,000 cans of repellent to Argentina on Tuesday after seeing an “unprecedented” 300% spike in demand from the same time last year.
• Bug spray scalpers are reselling mosquito repellent via the online marketplace MercadoLibre for $20/can—a 500% markup.

And that’s just Argentina

Of the 3.5 million people in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina who have already contracted dengue this year, 83% of them were in Brazil. Public health experts are also worried by rates rising in areas where outbreaks don’t typically occur.

• Suspected dengue cases in Peru have tripled from the same period last year to ~135,000, and registered deaths have increased from 33 to 117.
• Infections are climbing at popular vacation destinations, including Barbados, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique, and Mexico, according to the Pan American Health Association.

Why is this happening? Epidemiologists say climate change and El Niño are playing right into mosquitos’ forelegs by making more regions warmer and wetter (aka skeeters’ paradise).

Regarding a vaccine…Brazil became the first country to roll out a public dengue vax program this year, but it only has enough to immunize 3.3 million of its 220 million citizens. A more accessible shot is at least a year away from production.—ML

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StubHub reportedly plans to go public this summer. According to The Information, the ticketing giant was last valued at $16.5 billion in 2021, but could still call off the public listing if it fails to land that figure. The news comes amid a post-pandemic resurgence for live events, boosted by massive tours from Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Though StubHub revenue jumped 40% in 2023 from the year before, it’s saddled with more than $2 billion in debt, which could test investors’ willingness to buy. Rival ticketing service SeatGeek is also said to be mulling an IPO later this year.

Israel is preparing for an imminent attack by Iran. Israel believes Iran could strike within its borders as soon as today, per officials. Iran has publicly threatened retaliation after an Israeli airstrike hit an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus, Syria, last week, killing several top Iranian military leaders. The White House, which has said it would fully support Israel if it’s attacked, issued a travel warning to Americans in the country, urging them not to venture outside of major cities. Iran warned the US that if it gets involved in the fighting, US bases in the region will be attacked, Axios reported.

The House passed a controversial surveillance bill. On their fourth try, GOP leaders in the House finally corralled enough votes to reauthorize a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which critics say violates Americans’ privacy rights. Section 702 of FISA, which legalized warrantless wiretapping in the wake of the September 11 attacks, was set to expire later this month if Congress didn’t take action. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it’s expected to have bipartisan support.

Musicians haven’t been this shaken since P!nk’s first aerial performance. A new AI music generator, Udio, was released on Wednesday, weeks after Suno’s newest model captured the ears of everyone online.

Udio raised $10 million in funding from high-profile investors like a16z, Common, and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger. The company has snagged a ton of attention, and its users claim its song quality is better than other AI songmakers. But those same users seem to only be using the tool to create stuff like Dune the musical and songs about their friends pooping their pants (language warning).

We did our own test…and fed Suno and Udio the same prompt, asking them to make a pop-punk jam about our fact-checker, Holly, editing yesterday’s O.J. Simpson story. The verdict: Suno goes a little harder.

Copyright concerns: Udio’s release comes just days after roughly 200 artists, including Jon Bon Jovi, Billie Eilish, and Nicki Minaj, signed an open letter asking developers to cool it with the music-making bots, arguing it devalues the “rights of human artists.”—MM

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Oakland officials voted on Thursday to rename its airport San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, causing SF to get more riled up than when you call it “San Fran.” San Francisco is accusing its neighbor across the bay of intentionally confusing travelers by having its airport cosplay as the similarly named San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

• Oakland claims the new name is simply an attempt to boost visitor traffic by reminding visitors that the airport is located in the San Francisco Bay Area (its code will stay OAK).
• What up to this point has been known as Oakland International Airport is a ~25-minute drive from San Francisco’s downtown, closer than SFO is to parts of the city center.
• Airlines with frequent flights to Oakland support the rebrand, saying it’ll help their business.

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu promised to sue Oakland’s airport over the name change. “Imitation is the highest form of flattery…except when it infringes on one’s trademark,” he said. The Port of Oakland responded that SF’s airport doesn’t have exclusive rights to the “geographically-descriptive term ‘San Francisco.’”

Airports have waged toponymic turf wars before: Orlando International Airport (MCO) has kvetched that the smaller Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB), located outside of Orlando, could confuse Disney World vacationers. SFB is currently suing the federal government to appeal its denial of a trademark.—SK

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Retired champion runner Lauren Fleshman encapsulated how many female athletes feel about US Olympic track and field uniforms revealed this week by Nike...emphasis on reveal. The bush league attire led to accusations of sexism, as the men’s version featured a tank top and mid-thigh compression shorts while the women’s version was cut so high on the thigh that 2016 Olympian Colleen Quigley expressed concern about camel toe. Nike Chief Innovation Officer John Hoke provided cover for the company, telling the NYT that athletes competing in Paris this summer can wear more traditional uniforms instead of ones seemingly designed by a patriarchy uniform generator.

Stat: Japan’s population is old enough that some citizens can question the historical accuracy of Shōgun based on firsthand experience. The Financial Times reported that Japan’s number of over-65s is at a record-high 29%, while the amount of under-15s is at a record-low 11%. The country’s native population is falling at a rate of nearly 100 people per hour, leading to the biggest annual drop (837k) in the number of Japanese nationals since records started being kept in 1950. Japan has tried to address its fertility crisis by enticing families with financial incentives to produce more children, but thus far those efforts have failed.

Read: Why there are couches all over your office now. (WSJ)