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Montevideo, January 22nd 2025 - 01:20 UTC

Health & Science

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    HMS Protector “Sea Rider” Arctic Expedition for UK/Canadian Early-Career Researchers

    The Royal Ice Patrol, HMS Protector, during her joint cruise with the Canadian experts in the Sea Rider program

    The British High Commission in Ottawa organized an expedition for a group of British & Canadian early-career researchers to travel on board HMS Protector for an Arctic cruise. The UK and Canada have an exciting portfolio of collaborative projects relating to science, technology, and research.

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    11 new cases of monkeypox reported in Argentina

    All mpox infections nationwide belonged to variant clade II

    Argentine health authorities Monday reported the detection of 11 new cases of monkeypox in patients aged 34 on average with a minimum age of 20 years and a maximum of 56.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 19:47 UTC

    Argentine university says dengue-carrying mosquito more resistant to insecticides

    The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) will start vaccinating adolescents against dengue next week

    A study by the Argentine University of La Plata's Insect Neurobiology Laboratory released this week detected that certain mutations of the dengue-causing aedes aegypti mosquito is more resistant to insecticides than previously thought. The research was focused on the type of insect dominant in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) ahead of the Summer season, during which an outbreak of the malady is feared.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 16:16 UTC

    UK Antarctic Science Conference at BAS, Cambridge

    Falklands MLA Mark Pollard and FIG Office London Representative during a recent visit to BAS, closely linked to the Falklands

    The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, has announced that the UK Antarctic Science Conference 2024 will take place at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, 1st – 3rd October 2024. The meeting aims to bring together all in the UK who are involved in Antarctic research or the support of Antarctic research.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 15:40 UTC

    Well-preserved Ice Age mastodons found in Peru

    The near-complete preservation of one specimen heralded possible findings of global importance if the skull is found, it was explained

    Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons, which shed new light on these animals' presence in the region, with further specimes hoped to be unearthed shortly as the excavations that began in 2019 in the Chambara Valley, 300 kilometers east of Lima, are scheduled to continue. The behemoths found there are believed to be between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.

  • Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 15:50 UTC

    Use of unauthorized suicide capsule sparks controversy in Switzerland

    The Sarco capsule is purple because it is “the color of dignity,” The Last Resort states on its website.

    Authorities in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen arrested a group of people Tuesday in connection with the first-time unsanctioned use of the assisted suicide capsule known as Sarco, with which a 64-year-old American woman took her own life. Although assisted suicide is permitted in the country under certain conditions, prosecutors fear that these requirements had not been met.

  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:29 UTC

    Bluetongue virus, BTV 3, has spread to the whole of South East England

    DEFRA announced on Saturday that 'high risk' and 'control' zones previously set up in the UK had been merged and extended.

    As more cases were found temporary restriction zones have been brought in to help stem the spread of the bluetongue virus (BTV-3), some 95 cases, which now cover the whole of the South East England.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 08:02 UTC

    Falklands, confirmed case of avian influenza in Surf Bay, close to Stanley

    Since 30 October 2023, 113 suspect birds/animals have been reported, 72 sets of swabs have been taken. Nineteen have returned positive results and 53 negative results

    The Falkland Islands Director of Natural Resources has released the following, “On Monday 16 September 2024 swabs that were taken from a dead Gentoo penguin on Surf Bay were tested and returned positive for HPAI. Given that this is an isolated case of one single bird, that is more than 1km from poultry or a colony, a level 1 response will be followed and a full protection zone will not be declared.”

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 07:58 UTC

    Lush Rainforest in Falklands? Mysteries that Tussac House foundations helped discover

    Perfectly preserved wood sample from Tussac House site aged between 15 and 30 million years old. Credit: Dr. Zoë Thomas

    A researcher from the University of Southampton (UK) has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago.

  • Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 16:52 UTC

    Brazilian physicians worried about respiratory damage caused by widespread fires

    Facemasks do not filter smaller pollution particles and are therefore rather useless, Dalcolmo explained

    Respiratory disease specialists are concerned about people suffering the effects of long-lasting forest fires in several parts of South America's largest country and insist children and the elderly need special attention, Agencia Brasil reported. Excessive smoke in the air coupled with a dry climate has caused discomfort to many, Brazilian Society of Pneumology and Physiology (SBPT) President Margareth Dalcolmo warned.