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Montevideo, November 6th 2025 - 15:39 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, September 12th 2025 - 20:12 UTC

    PAHO reports measles cases up 34-fold in 2025

    The Fiocruz expert insisted on the need to increase vaccination

    According to the latest Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) report on the issue, a 34-fold increase in the number of measles cases was detected last month against 2024 figures.

  • Wednesday, September 3rd 2025 - 13:07 UTC

    Brazil and Paraguay join forces against syphilis

    “Syphilis is detected, treated, cured” was the gathering's motto

    Brazilian experts joined Tuesday a working meeting in Asunción between local representatives of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Paraguay's National Program for the Control of HIV/AIDS and STIs (Pronasida), and the General Directorate of Health Surveillance to further discuss the elimination of congenital syphilis and acquired syphilis through a project called Cooperation Among Countries for Health Development (CCHD).

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 19:38 UTC

    Brazilian health officials urge people to update Covid-19 vaccination

    Healthy individuals aged five to 59 are advised to receive one dose per annum

    According to the latest InfoGripe Bulletin from the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), there has been an increase in cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) due to Covid-19 in four Brazilian states: Rio de Janeiro, Ceará, Amazonas, and Paraíba. While the overall number of severe cases remains low and is not yet significantly impacting hospitalizations, health officials are urging people to keep their vaccinations up to date.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 19:10 UTC

    Uruguay signs Council of Europe’s Global AI Treaty

    The treaty was signed in Strasbourg by Montevideo's Ambassador to Paris, Enrique Emilio Loedel Soca

    Uruguay signed the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring that the use of AI systems is fully consistent with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

  • Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:51 UTC

    Researchers find wreck of former Uruguayan Navy's ROU 01

    The mission will explore the seabed off the Uruguayan coast until September 10

    The “Uruguay Sub200” scientific expedition, aboard the research vessel Falkor, has discovered the shipwreck of the destroyer ROU-01 Uruguay - formerly the USS Baron - at a depth of 1,160 meters off the coast.

  • Saturday, August 30th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    Peru: Scientists extracting skeleton of 20-million-year-old bird

    The fossil was found two years ago, but is to be removed from a thick rock in the coming days

    A team of Peruvian researchers has discovered the perfectly preserved fossil of a new, giant seabird species believed to be 20 million years old. The skeleton, found in the Ocucaje Desert in the department of Ica, is similar in size to a modern condor. In principle, the specimen is believed to belong to a species never before studied.

  • Friday, August 29th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

    Uruguay and Brazil sign across-the-border health agreement

    Lustemberg and Padilha praised the two countries' decision

    Health Ministers Cristina Lustemberg of Uruguay and Alexandre Padilha of Brazil have signed an agreement to create a binational health commission to improve healthcare services in their border regions.

  • Thursday, August 28th 2025 - 01:06 UTC

    Falklands offers opportunity to engage with the KEMH Maternity Review

    The KEMH is undertaking a full external review of its maternity services in October this year.

    The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) is offering the opportunity for those with experience of using maternity services in the Falkland Islands to engage with the upcoming maternity review.

  • Wednesday, August 27th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

    Uruguay: Falkor resumes mission after repairs

    We will announce on social media when the scientific team can resume live broadcasts,” the Udelar said in a statement

    The Uruguay Sub200 expedition has resumed its study of the Uruguayan continental seabed after a technical fault forced its research vessel, the Falkor, to return to the port of Montevideo. By late Tuesday, the Falkor was due in Punta del Este.

  • Tuesday, August 26th 2025 - 09:21 UTC

    Research vessel Falkor (too) halts Uruguay expedition after technical failure

    The ship’s return to Montevideo aims to secure the A-frame and allow the expedition to continue “with minimal impact”

    The Falkor (too), research vessel of the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), returned to Montevideo on Monday after suffering a malfunction in the early days of its “Visualizing the Deep off Uruguay” (Uruguay SUB200) expedition.