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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 22:24 UTC

Health & Science

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:36 UTC

    Jet fuel developed from human feces in UK

    Human poo is abundant, Hygate explained

    A British scientific team in Gloucestershire has successfully developed jet fuel from human feces. The product has been reported to be almost identical to the conventional kerosene used in modern aviation. “We wanted to find a really low-value feedstock that was highly abundant; and of course poo is abundant,” Firefly Green Fuels CEO James Hygate explained.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:26 UTC

    Covid-19 keeps spreading across Bolivia

    Castro insisted people need to take precautions and attend vaccination centers

    Bolivian health authorities reported Tuesday a 128% surge in cases of Covid-19 nationwide in addition to the detection of the JN.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus -also known as Pirola- in the department of Santa Cruz.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Argentine hemorrhagic fever not widespread but highly lethal

    In 2023, only two people were diagnosed with AHF, but one died last Monday

    Sanitary experts in the city of Rosario in the province of Santa Fe recommended people in rural areas get vaccinated against Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever (AHF). The once-in-a-lifetime chemical is free of charge and indicated for people between 15 and 65 years of age because “Santa Fe is an endemic area,” the specialists warned after the death of one man infected with the malady.

  • Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:22 UTC

    Covid-19: Alert issued in Paraguay amid growing number of cases

    The most affected age group is between 20 and 39 years old, Paraguayan authorities reported

    Paraguayan health authorities have issued an alert amid an increase in the number of Covid-19 and influenza cases that are pushing the national sanitary network to its limits, it was reported in Asunción.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 09:33 UTC

    Icebreaker ARA Irízar sets sail on Antarctic Campaign

    The Argentine Navy's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar set sail from Buenos Aires this week to do her part in the 2023/2024 Antarctic Summer Campaign after a ceremony presided over by Defense Minister Luis Petri.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:48 UTC

    Uruguayan hospitals: Facemasks no longer mandatory

    Medina had insisted that it was about time for the measure to be more flexible

    The Uruguayan Government lifted the mandatory requirement to wear facemasks at healthcare facilities nationwide, it was reported in Montevideo Thursday. The document was signed by President Luis Lacalle Pou.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

    Dengue kills man in Argentine province of Corrientes

    So far this year, 1,079 deaths from dengue have been recorded in Brazil

    Argentine health authorities have issued an epidemiological alert after a man died of dengue in the city of Corrientes. The patient, who was reported to have underlying pathologies, had been rushed from his San Luis del Palmar residence to the “Escuela Hogar” hospital, in the provincial capital.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    Bolivia declares epidemiological alert as number of Covid-19 grows

    The system must remain attentive, Minister Castro said

    Bolivian authorities Wednesday decreed an epidemiological alert in the face of an increasing number of cases of Covid-19. “It is not the first alert that it is launched,” Health Minister María Renée Castro explained. “When we have some diseases that begin to circulate we launch an alert to tell the system that it must remain attentive, so that we are all there, with all the protocols,” she added.

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Covid-19: Pirola strain detected in Argentina

    The case of Pirola in Argentina was detected in the Southern Province of Santa Cruz

    Argentine health authorities Tuesday confirmed the first case of the JN.1 strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, also known as Pirola, which has been labeled a variant of interest (VOI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 13:12 UTC

    Covid-19 shows social inequalities in Brazil and kills 2 in Bolivia

    Patients in private healthcare facilities in Brazil did better on average than those treated in public hospitals for Covid-19

    According to a study by the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz) released this week, COVID-19 turned out to be a reflection of the South American country's socioeconomic and health disparities while in Bolivia -a full Mercosur member since earlier this month- two people have died of the disease.