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Montevideo, April 19th 2025 - 04:01 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Former Uruguayan President Mujica hospitalized for a third time in 10 days

    Mujica will remain hospitalized until he can tolerate more dense food, his physician explained

    Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica (2010-2015) was admitted Thursday for the third time in 10 days at a Montevideo sanatorium to go on with his cancer treatment. Mujica's head physician Raquel Pannone said the case affecting the 89-year-old leader was not particularly serious despite the recurrent hospitalizations.

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    Increasing number of Covid-19 cases reported in Brazil

    Cases of respiratory virus account for over half the casualties under epidemiological study, Fiocruz's bulletin found

    A health report issued Thursday by the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) noted that the number of Covid-19 infections in South America's largest country was on the rise, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 08:01 UTC

    Scientific research study on Avian Influenza Virus, HPAIV

    The study demonstrates the expansion of the geographical distribution area of the disease

    Nature Communications has published and made public an extensive report with full results on field sampling and diagnosis of the deadly Bird Flu virus, high pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV), detected in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, which apparently is rapidly spreading to sea birds and mammals species in sub-Antarctica islands and the frozen continent.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 07:53 UTC

    BAS announces UK Antarctic Science Conference at Cambridge

    Registration will be £25, includes lunch on the 1st and 2nd October and refreshments throughout. Online participation will be available for free.

    British Antarctic Survey has announced that the UK Antarctic Science Conference 2024 will take place at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, 1st – 3rd October 2024. The meeting aims to bring together all in the UK who are involved in Antarctic research or the support of Antarctic research.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 07:00 UTC

    Falklands Community Survey on Equality and Discrimination

    Survey is designed to collect views, perceptions and experiences of discrimination in Falklands. Insights will help promote inclusivity, fairness and improve opportunity access

    The Falkland Islands Government are pleased to announce the launch of the Community Views survey on equality and discrimination in the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Argentine man with monkeypox dies in Mexico

    Molina had also tested positive for HIV

    Santiago Molina, a 28-year-old man who contracted monkeypox and was hospitalized in Mexico, has died or a cardiac arrest, it was reported Tuesday. The patient passed away Sunday but the case only went public Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Former Argentine president sued for extending Covid-19 lockdowns beyond sanitary needs

    Martín Guzmán said he believed the pandemic gave Alberto Fernández additional political strength

    Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan and Buenos Aires City Congressman Yamil Santoro filed separate criminal complaints Monday against former President Alberto Fernández after Martín Guzmán, who served as Economy Minister under him, said in an interview that the Covid-19 quarantines were extended for political gain rather than out of a sanitary concern.

  • Monday, September 2nd 2024 - 07:49 UTC

    Uruguay should not underestimate mpox threat, official says

    “We cannot let our guard down under any public health threat,” Satdjian pointed out

    Uruguay's Health Undersecretary José Luis Satdjian insisted this weekend that the country must remain alert for a possible monkeypox outbreak: “We cannot lower our guard,” the official stressed while pointing out that local authorities have stayed in contact with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) after the declaration of public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Uruguay's potential in Antarctica reviewed at Torre Ejecutiva

    Uruguay's presence in Antarctica is absolutely fundamental from a strategic viewpoint, Garcé told attendees at the event in Torre Ejecutiva

    Uruguayan authorities reviewed the country's potential in Antarctica this week during a seminar on the matter held at Torre Ejecutiva in Montevideo to promote awareness, exchange data, share good practices, and support the study of the world's southernmost region, the presidential website reported.

  • Saturday, August 31st 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    WHO Director urges governments to work together against mpox

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said efforts were underway to facilitate access to vaccines against this disease formerly known as monkeypox

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday estimated that with proper “government leadership, the mpox outbreak can be over in six months.”