Health & Science

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Paraguayans skipping booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  

  Paraguayan health authorities have expressed their concern over a slowdown in vaccination against COVID-19, with very few booster doses applied.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Pfizer files for emergency clearance of bivalent C-19 vax in Brazil

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has received a request for the emergency use of Pfizer's newest vaccine against COVID-19 which would be active against both the original and the Ômicron strain, subvariant BA.1.

• Friday, August 19th 2022 - 22:13 UTC

  Monkeypox spreading fast, reaches 37 cases in Bolivia

  

  Monkeypox infections have soared in Bolivia at an average of two daily infections for a total of 37 cases by Thursday, it was reported in La Paz. The spread has also reached 3 of the country's 9 departments after 100% of the infections were only in Santa Cruz just 4 days before. By Aug. 18, Santa Cruz had 35 cases, La Paz 1 and Potosi 1. No recovered patients have been reported yet.

• Friday, August 19th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Antarctic Heritage has selected three young explorers for the Geographic South Pole ski expedition in November

  

  The Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition to attempt to ski to the Geographic South Pole, has selected three candidates for the coming November challenge, which coincides with the 150th anniversary since the birth of legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole in 1911.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 20:52 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa signals end of mandatory facemasks in airplanes

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has agreed to end the mandatory wearing of facemasks on airplanes, which will be henceforth just “recommended,” it was reported. The measure will become effective as soon as it is published in the Official Gazette.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Household pet dog reported having caught monkeypox

  

  Experts Wednesday issued a series of recommendations after the medical journal The Lancet reported the first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox last week. The case occurred in France.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Uruguayan Health Minister says monkeypox stable

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Wednesday explained the monkeypox outbreak in his country was “stable” after 50 suspected cases have been ruled out.

• Thursday, August 18th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Cases of monkeypox soar in Peru

  

  Peru has the highest monkeypox infection rate per million inhabitants and it also ranks third in the world behind the United States and Canada, the latest Oxford University global monkeypox surveillance study released Wednesday showed.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 21:48 UTC

  Tracheotomy performed on former Paraguayan President Lugo

  

  Former Paraguayan President and current Senator Fernando Lugo had a tracheotomy performed on him late Tuesday after complications that led physicians to postpone the withdrawal of life-support paraphernalia.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  FLOTUS tests positive for COVID-19

  

  US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, after showing cold-like symptoms Monday night which prompted PCR measurings, it was announced Tuesday by White House sources.