Health & Science

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  RRS Sir David Attenborough meets mega iceberg A23a drifting towards South Georgia

  

  Scientists aboard the Falklands flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough collected samples of seawater around the A23a mega iceberg, the largest iceberg in the world. New video footage shows the enormous iceberg, some 3,900km2 and 400m tall, twice the size of Greater London stretching out into the distance beyond the research vessel.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Unforeseen changes unravel Argentine mystery ‘submarine’ expedition

  

  In an unexpected turn of events, the highly anticipated expedition Eslabon Perdido / Ultra Mar Sur, aimed at unraveling the mysteries surrounding Argentine coastal 'submarine' wrecks, has encountered a twist of its own.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Uruguayan football club wants mental health help as yet another player commits suicide

  

  The suicide of 29-year-old footballer Diego Galo of Amateur First Division club Sportivo Bella Italia prompted calls for mental health assistance to players nationwide following a string of similar events over the past few years, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, December 4th 2023 - 08:03 UTC

  Equine encephalomyelitis, Argentina declares sanitary emergency; Uruguay reports first case

  

  Argentina has finally declared a sanitary emergency in all of its territory, following an increase in equine encephalomyelitis, EE, and anticipates “immediate, extraordinary, exceptional measures to contain further outbreaks of the virus disease”.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:46 UTC

  Uruguayan scientific, military team flies to Antarctica

  

  A group of over 40 Uruguayan military and scientific personnel were flown to Antarctica aboard an Ururuguayan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft in a move to promote 14 projects in the areas of geosciences, life sciences, social and human sciences, as well as environmental monitoring, it was reported Thursday in Montevideo.

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  Uruguay and Paraguay take action to prevent equine encephalomyelitis

  

  Paraguayan and Uruguayan health authorities have been reported to be taking preventive measures regarding a possible outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis in several Argentine provinces

  

  Argentina's Animal Health and Food Quality Service, SENASA, has officially reported positive results of alphavirus, equine encephalomyelitis from regional labs in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes and Santa Fe, where samples of nervous or dying horses were collected.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  International scientific team to research Antarctic ecosystems on RRS Sir David Attenborough

  

  A team of international researchers set sail on the Falklands flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough last Monday, 20 November to answer some of the big questions about how Antarctic ecosystems and sea ice drive global ocean cycles of carbon and nutrients.

• Friday, November 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  WHO wants data from China on respiratory disease affecting children

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested that Chinese health authorities explain the rapid spread of a respiratory disease among children.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:14 UTC

  Avian Influenza outbreak in South Georgia expanding, GSGSSI and BAS survey

  

  Last month, October 2023, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed on Bird Island, South Georgia in the brown skua populations. Since then, a number of other cases of symptomatic birds and above baseline mortality have been reported to the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI).