Health & Science

• Friday, October 18th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

  Avian influenza in Falklands, access restrictions at Volunteer Point, Cow Bay and Lively Island

  

  The Director of the Falklands Natural Resources Department, Dr. Andrea Clausen has given an update on avian influenza cases registered at Volunteer Point, Cow Bay and Lively Island.

• Thursday, October 17th 2024 - 10:04 UTC

  Federal Police in Rio launches probe into HIV-infected organ transplants

  

  Brazilian Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro launched an inquiry into the case of six patients receiving HIV-infected organs for transplants, Agência Brasil reported Wednesday. Other institutions already investigating the matter include Rio's Civil Police, the Health Ministry, and the Health Department.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 21:49 UTC

  Oropouche virus detected in Brazil could belong to new variant

  

  Brazilian scientists said this week that the samples of the Oropouche virus recently detected in South America's largest country could belong to a new variant. According to the latest study on the subject published in The Lancet, the recent increase in cases “could be linked to a new recombinant Oropouche virus, with an increased capacity to replicate.” These findings would be in line with a similar work published last month in Nature.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

  Falklands Waters, UK Hydrographic starts seabed mapping surveys in November

  

  In November, the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) will conduct seabed mapping surveys of the Falkland Islands coastal waters to support safe maritime trade and the development of a sustainable blue economy.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 23:10 UTC

  Falklands confirms case of avian influenza at Volunteer Green and Cow Bay

  

  The Government of the Falkland Islands confirmed that on Thursday 10 October 2024 swabs that were taken from dead penguins at Volunteer Point, which returned a positive result for HPAI.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 20:37 UTC

  New coronavirus strain detected in southern Brazil

  

  The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) confirmed the presence in the southern part of the continent's largest country of a sublineage of the Sars-CoV-2 Omicron strain known as XEC, which is rapidly spreading worldwide, Agencia Brasil reported. The variant has been found in the States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina after Fiocruz made the first discovery in samples from two patients in Rio last month.

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

  Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

  

  This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

• Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands, Update on avian influenza

  

  Since Monday 1 July 2024, three suspect birds/animals have been reported, 2 sets of swabs have been taken. One set returned positive results and 1 set of negative results. There are 3 sets of swabs pending.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 13:13 UTC

  Proteins show the way for 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize winners

  

  Sweden's Royal Academy of Science announced Wednesday that researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies regarding proteins.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:23 UTC

  Bluetongue restriction zone in the UK widened

  

  The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it had extended the regional bluetongue restriction zone after two cases of the disease were reported along the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border. This means following restrictions on moving animals.