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Montevideo, June 9th 2025 - 16:03 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Falklands survey to continue with Hydatid control/eradication in the Islands

    Everyone is encouraged to complete the short survey, whether you own dogs and/or sheep or not.

    The tapeworm E.granulosus primarily completes its lifecycle between dogs and sheep, with the intermediate stage in sheep causing hydatid cysts. Humans exposed to tapeworm eggs in dog faeces can also develop hydatid cysts in their liver or lungs and this can make people extremely unwell, and can be fatal if untreated.

  • Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:00 UTC

    WHO to train 6,000 healthcare pros to help Peru fight dengue

    Things can get worse “with the arrival of El Niño,” Tedros explained

    The World Health Organization (WHO) is to train more than 6,000 healthcare professionals to assist Peru in the dengue epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday. Peru is experiencing one of its worst dengue crises, with 81,202 confirmed cases and at least 193 deaths.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    BAS new ten-year strategy, Polar Science for a Sustainable Planet

    Scientists will use a range of new technology over the next decade to do science in the Polar Regions

    The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), is launching on Monday 19 June, its new ten-year science strategy that addresses urgent scientific challenges facing our world, namely in the continents of the Arctic and Antarctic and the impact that the Polar Regions have across our planet.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 08:40 UTC

    “Resuscitating” Ecuadorian woman dies

    Montoya suffered an “ischemic stroke” that ended her life, it was reported

    The Ecuadorian woman who made the news worldwide last week for being almost buried alive, has died Friday aged 76, it was reported. Bella Montoya had been pronounced dead on June 9 at a public hospital in Babahoyo, in southwestern Ecuador.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:28 UTC

    Paraguay: nationwide avian influenza emergency declared

    So far 366 birds have been culled

    Paraguayan authorities Thursday decreed a nationwide animal sanitary emergency due to the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, thus triggering the National Animal Health Emergency System (Sinaesa), it was announced in Asunción.

  • Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:43 UTC

    Relief for Paraguay: chicungunya vaccine in humans showed promising results

    Chikungunya virus is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes.Tropical regions currently see the highest rates of the virus, with Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Thailand most affected

    A new clinical study shows promising results of a Phase III chikungunya vaccine trial, the first time the shot has been tested in humans. If approved by regulators, the vaccine would have the capacity to protect millions of people from the debilitating mosquito-borne disease, authors explained in the study published June 12 in The Lancet.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    What is killing the animals at Chile's Humboldt Reserve?

    Beyond bird flu, it is yet unknown whether the animals die of the El Niño current, climate change, or toxins in the sea

    Due to avian flu, what used to be a vacation spot in northern Chile full of tourists sighting the marine fauna has become the ground where sanitary brigades look for dead birds likely killed by the deadly virus following the closure of the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve, in the Coquimbo region.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:34 UTC

    Facemasks return to Chilean schools due to syncytial virus

    Six children under one year of age have died so far of syncytial virus

    Chilean authorities Tuesday reinstated the mandatory use of facemasks at Chilean schools at least until Aug. 31 as a result of the “largest outbreak [of the syncytial virus] we have had on record,” Health Minister Ximena Aguilera announced.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Study shows Brazilians eat fewer proteins

    Brazilians have the intention to consume, but there is the impediment of high prices today, the director of the platform carrying out the survey explained

    Brazilians have reduced their intake of red meat protein, according to a study published Monday by Agencia Brasil. Even sausages and hot dogs have lost importance on the consumer's table, it was reported.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 16:07 UTC

    Germany recruiting skilled labor, particularly nurses in Brazil

    Heil, travelling in South America for several days with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, signed the declaration together with minister Luiz Marinho in Brasilia

    German Labour Minister Hubertus Heil and Brazilian Labour Minister Luiz Marinho signed a declaration of intent for “fair immigration” to promote the exchange of skilled workers.