Health & Science

• Monday, January 8th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Outbreak of brucellosis in southern Chile

  An outbreak of bovine brucellosis has been confirmed in the Chilean province of Osorno, according to the Minister of Agriculture Alvaro Rojas.

• Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Tobacco advertising banned in Buenos Aires City

  

  Public advertising of tobacco in Buenos Aires City has been banned as from the first day of 2007, under municipal law 1799 passed in late 2005, amid a drive to curb smoking-related illnesses in Argentina that according the national government kill 40,000 people a year.

• Monday, December 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Survey shows Chileans among least happy in Latinamerica

  The latest in a string of international happiness surveys shows that 66% of Chileans describe themselves as “happy” or “very happy” — yet they are less happy than people in almost every other Latin American country.

• Thursday, December 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bajii Yangtze dolphin “is functionally extinct”

  

  The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct reports a scientific expedition from the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan, China, and the Swiss-based baiji.org Foundation. During six weeks they desperately searched the Yangtze River for a specimen but in vain.