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Montevideo, November 1st 2025 - 02:29 UTC

Health & Science

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

    Genes make Antarctica bacteria immune to antibiotics

    These findings would make it possible to forecast likely health risks

    A team of Chilean scientists doing research in Antarctica has come up with bacteria resistant to antibiotics and other man-developed treatments thanks to information passed on through genes, it was reported.

  • Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

    Brazil not to isolate monkeypox patients, for now, Anvisa says

    “As soon as justified, sanitary measures will be proposed,” Anvisa warned

    Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday made it clear that measures already in place at airports and inside airplanes were being upped to protect people from COVID-19 as well as from other diseases and pointed out it isolating patients to tackle monkeypox was not among the recommendations issued.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

    First case of monkeypox detected in Argentina?

    The suspected patient had been in Spain between April 28 and May 16

    Argentina's Health Ministry of Health Sunday announced the first suspected case of monkeypox had been detected in the country and that it was being monitored closely.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:25 UTC

    COVID-19 continues to spread in Argentina, Chile

    Omicron continues to kill people and it is also highly transmissible, Dabanch said

    Argentina's Health Ministry Sunday reported 43,487 new cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days, a 27.94% increase over the previous report, in addition to 49 deaths due to the pandemic in the same period. The number of weekly cases has grown by more than 284% in one month.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:20 UTC

    Uruguay, Peru take preventive action against monkeypox

    As it is a well-known disease, health centers in many countries have long had protocols in place

    Uruguayan health authorities announced during the weekend they were monitoring the possible local appearance of suspected cases of monkeypox, based on “the symptomatology and travel history” of individuals.

  • Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    Endurance Conquered: A conversation with Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration of the Endurance22 project

    Director of Exploration Mensun Bound (Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust).

    By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

  • Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:55 UTC

    BAS contributing to Antarctica's dynamic mapping and geographic information

    Topographic map of the recently collapsed Conger Ice Shelf contained in the latest edition of the ADD.

    The latest British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) data will be included in a world leading collection of geographic information. ADD is a compilation of the best available topographic data for Antarctica. It is managed by BAS’ Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) on behalf of The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and is an essential tool for researchers navigating and understanding Antarctica’s ever changing landscape.

  • Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:49 UTC

    WHO working closely with (ten) countries responding to monkey-pox

    As monkey pox -spreads through close contact, the response should focus on the people affected and their close contacts (Pic AP)

    WHO and partners are working to better understand the extent and cause of an outbreak of monkeypox. The virus is endemic in some animal populations in a number of countries, leading to occasional outbreaks among local people and travelers. The recent outbreaks reported across 11 countries so far are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries.

  • Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 07:45 UTC

    Queues of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal as post pandemic global trade picks up

    This week some 101 vessels were awaiting clearance to make the 64km journey through the canal, six units more than the average recorded so far this year

    Global transportation bottlenecks that have surged since the pandemic have shaken industries, consumers, deliveries, and prices. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the current Panama Canal queues of vessels.

  • Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    WHO greenlights CanSino single-dose Covid-19 vax for emergency use

    WHO's authorization means the COVAX program may now purchase and distribute CanSino vaccines

    The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday granted an emergency approval to the CONVIDECIA vaccine against COVID-19 developed by China's CanSino Biologics.