Health & Science

• Monday, December 8th 2025 - 09:35 UTC

  Uruguayan health authorities launch key vaccination campaigns

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) launched this weekend a measles vaccination campaign after several detections were confirmed within a family that had arrived from Bolivia.

• Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 22:27 UTC

  Sexual exploitation of children on the rise in Chile

  

  Chilean Public Prosecutor's Office found that the sexual exploitation of children in the South American country was a “growing structural problem” between 2022 and 2024, with female adolescents aged 14-17 disproportionately targeted, prompting authorities to call for stronger state intervention to enforce the Lanzarote Convention.

• Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentina launches 2025/26 Summer Antarctic Campaign

  

  Argentina has formally commenced its 2025/26 Summer Antarctic Campaign (CAV), a massive, multi-faceted operation integrating logistics, scientific research, and infrastructure development in one of the planet’s most challenging environments.

• Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 08:35 UTC

  UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035, next decade Policy Paper

  

  The strategy document sets out the UK's approach to the Antarctic over the next decade, It can be read at,UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035

• Monday, December 1st 2025 - 21:01 UTC

  Uruguay leads Latin America in electric car sales

  

  Uruguay has cemented its position as the undisputed leader in Latin American electric vehicle (EV) adoption, achieving a remarkable market penetration of 27.97% in the third quarter of 2025, the Latin American Zero Emissions Observatory (ZEMO) reported. The South American country is way ahead of its nearest competitor (Costa Rica, with 16.26%).

• Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

  Brazil approves locally produced dengue vaccine

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has approved the final administrative step before the formal registration of the single-dose dengue vaccine developed by the São Paulo-based Butantan Institute for people aged 12 to 59, which protects against all four virus serotypes.

• Tuesday, November 25th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentina: Mar del Plata to fine beach smokers this summer

  

  The Argentine city of Mar del Plata will fine people smoking on its beaches as of Dec. 1, ending a three-year implementation period based solely on voluntary compliance. The new rules will impose significant economic penalties on trespassers outside designated areas.

• Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:48 UTC

  Argentine province back to pandemic-era measures as Covid-19 resurges

  

  The Argentine province of Formosa has confirmed a significant resurgence of Covid-19, prompting health officials to re-establish preventative measures associated with the pandemic and leading to an urgent plea to the National Government over delayed vaccine deliveries.

• Monday, November 17th 2025 - 21:16 UTC

  Avian flu decimates seal elephant population in South Georgia; few survivors emerge in Uruguayan beaches

  

  In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both females and males, and allegedly they belong to “deep South species”, according to local environmental and animal protection organizations such as “FaunaMarinaSOS”.

• Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

  Dominican Republic boosts border security as cholera resurges in Haiti

  

  Authorities in the Dominican Republic have upped all border security measures after Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), backed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and other international agencies, admitted to the spreading of a cholera outbreak, it was reported in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Friday.