A semi-submerged car is seen in a flooded street in the Vila Farrapos neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on May 29, 2024. Brazilian authorities on May 28 reported an increase in cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease transmitted by rats, in the flooded south, parts of which have been under water for a month. According to the latest figures from the Rio Grande do Sul State Health Secretariat, five people are confirmed to have died from the disease, while another nine deaths are being investigated. (Photo by SILVIO AVILA / AFP)