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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 00:59 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, May 12th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    WHO declares end of monkeypox emergency

    MPOX and Covid 19: “Both viruses continue to circulate and both continue to kill,” Tedros warned

    Monkeypox, or MPOX, is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization declared Thursday after a nearly one-year-long alert for the disease that resulted in 87,000 confirmed cases in 111 countries, and 140 deaths recorded worldwide.

  • Saturday, May 6th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    WHO announces end of Covid-19 “emergency of international concern”

    Countries must not, however, let down their guards, Doctor Tedros insisted

    The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday decided to declare “Covid-19 no longer a health emergency of international concern,” announced Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who added that the malady left “at least 20 million” people dead globally, which is almost threefold the official toll.

  • Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    Brazil's Supreme Court lifts secrecy on Bolsonaro's alleged vaccination card fraud

    “President Bolsonaro will be available to the competent authorities, as he always has been, as soon as the defense has access to the records,” said Wajngarten

    Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexander De Moraes lifted the seal of secrecy from the probe into former President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged use of a fake vaccination card to enter the United States, Agencia Brasil reported. In the case, Colonel Mauro Barbosa Cid, a former aide of Bolsonaro's, has been placed under arrest.

  • Thursday, May 4th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    Police raid Bolsonaro's home in Covid-19 vax card probe

    “I did not take the vaccine and that's the end of it,” Bolsonaro told reporters

    Brazilian Federal Police Wednesday morning raided Jair Bolsonaro's home in Brasilia and seized the former President's mobile phone and other evidence in a probe into allegations that the retired Army captain had falsified his Covid-19 vaccination certificate to enter the United States, which he denied.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguay starts vaccinating poultry against avian flu

    The situation “is still in the area of wildlife and backyard poultry, it has not entered into any production system,” Mattos said

    Uruguayan authorities began vaccinating poultry against avian flu with immunizers from the United States, it was reported Tuesday in Montevideo. An additional batch of chemicals is due from Mexico shortly.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    First case of Arcturus reported in Brazil

    The patient was a 75-year-old man with comorbiditiea

    São Paulo's Municipal Health Secretariat reported this week the first case of variant XBB.1.16 of Covid-19, also known as Arcturus in a 75-year-old man, bedridden and with comorbidities, who presented the symptoms of influenza syndrome and persistent fever on April 7.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    Unvaxed travelers allowed back into the US shortly

    The measure becomes effective May 11 together with the end of the health emergency

    The United States administration of President Joseph Biden has lifted the mandatory requirement of Covid-19 vaccination for travelers wanting to enter its territory, effective May 11, it was announced in Washington DC. The measure was in force since 2021.

  • Sunday, April 30th 2023 - 14:34 UTC

    Japanese vaccine against dengue approved for use in Argentina

    Between week 15 and week 16, there were 15,393 new infections, it was reported

    Argentine health authorities have approved the use of a Japanese vaccine against dengue that needs to be administered in two doses three months apart from one another, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, April 29th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

    SARS cases on the rise in Brazil

    The Infogripe bulletin stressed the importance of vaccination

    While insisting on the importance of vaccination against Covid-19 and flu, Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) denounced a rise in the number of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) cases in 19 out of 27 in the last 6 weeks ending April 15, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, April 27th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    AMLO sends message showing he is recovering well from Covid-19

    AMLO said he would live through his entire presidential term, which finishes in September next year, despite his adversaries' wishes

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Wednesday posted a video on social media saying he was recovering well from his bout of Covid-19. Interior Minister Adán López Hernández said the head of state would resume his duties before the weekend.