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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 21:41 UTC

Health & Science

  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:13 UTC

    Expedition Confirms Wreck in Argentine Waters is a Submarine

    April 2024 sonar image of Attack periscope extending from submarine conning tower

    By Laurence de Mello

    In a significant milestone, an international Expedition team headed by the ‘Eslabon Perdido Group’ has successfully pinpointed the location of a sunken submarine, resting 4 kilometers off the Argentine coast of Necochea at a depth of 28 meters.

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  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    First shipment of Paraguayan mosquito repellent sent to Argentina

    Moskill is seizing the opportunity created by Javier Milei's government to push local retail prices down amid the ongoing dengue outbreak

    Paraguayan producers Wednesday dispatched the first shipment of mosquito repellent to Argentine, where President Javier Milei's administration opened up the borders to import this product in a move to curb black-market-like prices given the high demand stemming from the onset of a dengue fever outbreak.

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  • Tuesday, April 16th 2024 - 10:14 UTC

    Uruguay reports 80 dengue cases in one day

    Satdjian hoped that this year's flu vaccination campaign would be as successful as previous versions

    Uruguayan authorities announced Monday in Montevideo that 80 new cases of dengue fever have been confirmed nationwide, 55 of them autochthonous (i.e., in patients with no recent travel history) and 25 imported.

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  • Monday, April 15th 2024 - 21:22 UTC

    Falklands celebrate close bonds with BAS and RRS Sir David Attenborough

    Governor Blake visiting RRS Sir David Attenborough (Pic @GHFalklands)

    A year ago the Falkland Islands Governor Alison Blake CMG and members of the Falklands community were welcomed onboard the state of the art icebreaker RRS Sir David Attenborough. This week the Governor invited some of the crew of the Falklands flagged Sir David Attenborough before they departed for BAS bases in Antarctica.

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  • Saturday, April 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Ecuador's govt issues guidelines for application of euthanasia

    The Constitutional Court had given Noboa's government 60 days to enact the rules under which physicians would apply this ultimate treatment

    Ecuador's conservative government of President Daniel Noboa Friday issued the guidelines for the implementation of euthanasia following the Constitutional Court's (CC) instructions in a ruling granting the request of 42-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient Paola Roldán who died on March 11. The malady is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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  • Wednesday, April 10th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

    “God Particle” Nobel prize winner, Professor Higgs has died at 94

    The University of Edinburgh where Higgs was emeritus professor said he died Monday after a short illness.

    The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.

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  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 22:04 UTC

    Mexican donation of mosquito repellent arrives in Argentina

    The sanitary fluid was manufactured by SC Johnson's Mexican branch

    A total of 22,320 bottles of mosquito repellent donated by Mexico arrived Monday in Argentina where the product has become increasingly scarce amid a soaring number of dengue fever cases, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    UNESCO recognizes yet another Brazilian geopark

    Brazil now has six geoparks (geographical areas with geological heritage of international significance, according to UNESCO)

    The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has granted the Terra dos Gigantes (Land of the Giants) geopark in Uberaba, in the Triângulo Mineiro region of Minas Gerais State, the status of “geopark,” Agencia Brasil reported. With this appointment, the South American country now has six archaeological sites of global significance.

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 21:34 UTC

    Kicillof blames Milei for writing himself off from battle against dengue

    Milei's health strategy “seems like a joke, but it is very serious,” Argentina's main opposition leader stressed

    Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof accused Argentine President Javier Milei of writing himself off the country's plight with dengue fever and leaving it all up to the different jurisdictions. Kicillof, a political figure akin to Kirchnerism and arguably the most prominent opposition leader these days, said the federal government behaved as one of a “deserting and absent national State.” The Libertarian administration has no State strategy to tackle the problem, he also argued.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Dengue kills over 1,000 people in Brazil so far this year

    In all of 2023, 1,079 deaths caused by dengue were recorded in Brazil

    Dengue fever has killed over 1,000 Brazilians so far this year while other 1,531 deaths are under investigation, federal authorities admitted Wednesday. The Health Ministry's Arbovirus Panel said 1,020 deaths from the disease have been recorded whereas the total number of casualties from the same ailment in 2023 amounted to 1,079. The country has recorded some 2.6 million infections, Agencia Brasil also reported.

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