Health & Science

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Ebola experimental vaccines trigger cabinet dispute in Congo

  

  
Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday in protest at the presidency's announcement last week that it was stripping his team of control over the response to the Ebola outbreak.

• Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 18:05 UTC

  Buzz Aldrin, second human to walk on the moon, tells Trump he is disappointed with current lunar agenda

  

  When President Donald Trump asked Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, what he thought about the United States' current ability to operate in space 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission, the ex-astronaut had a ready response.

• Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 07:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro denies hunger in Brazil; FAO says 5.1 million are “undernourished”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of “poor people in the street with a skeletal physique” as evidence. Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed “populists” for propagating “a big lie” that some of Brazil's 209 million people did not have enough to eat.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  African swine fever: Pork prices in China soaring and the worst is yet to come

  

  Pork prices have been sent soaring and herds devastated as African swine fever tears through China's massive pig-farming industry, forcing the country to ramp up imports to satisfy demand - but analysts warn worse is yet to come.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Trump administration lifts ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos, linked to children health issues

  

  The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it will not ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked to health issues in children, from use on U.S.-grown fruits and vegetables.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2019 - 22:52 UTC

  Humanitarian project identifies Argentine soldier #114 at Darwin

  

  A new body has been identified, raising the number of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 Falklands War who now have a name on their graves to 114, thanks to the Humanitarian Project underway.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Colombia declares banana production farm in quarantine due to fear of fungus

  

  A Colombian banana production farm near the Venezuelan border has been declared under quarantine after the possible outbreak of a lethal fungus has been detected, local authorities acknowledged Monday.

• Saturday, July 13th 2019 - 16:11 UTC

  Temporary restrictions on Brazilian pork exports to Russia imposed

  

  Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service (Rosseljoznadzor) has imposed temporary restrictions from 11 July on the importation of pork products and other animals vulnerable to classical swine fever virus from the State of Piauí, located in the northeast region of Brazil, it was announced.

• Friday, July 12th 2019 - 13:13 UTC

  Humans came to the Americas earlier than thought, study shows

  

  A study by a Texas university released Thursday sheds new light on the population of the Americas as it places humans in the continent 2,000 years before than science has been maintaining.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Latin America suffering triple burden of malnutrition: obesity, unbalanced diets and declining activity

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean is facing an obesity epidemic while paradoxically the number of people facing food insecurity in the region continues to rise, the OECD and FAO warned in a report on Monday.