Tag: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 20:37 UTC

  New coronavirus strain detected in southern Brazil

  

  The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) confirmed the presence in the southern part of the continent's largest country of a sublineage of the Sars-CoV-2 Omicron strain known as XEC, which is rapidly spreading worldwide, Agencia Brasil reported. The variant has been found in the States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina after Fiocruz made the first discovery in samples from two patients in Rio last month.

• Friday, April 12th 2024 - 22:20 UTC

  Brazil accounts for nearly 70% of dengue cases in LatAm and Caribbean

  

  According to a survey conducted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Brazil accounted for almost 70% of dengue cases in Latin America and the Caribbean, where some 4.6 million infections were confirmed this year, representing a 237% interannual increase, Agencia Brasil reported. PAHO is the arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Americas.

• Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 11:16 UTC

  Brazil: Mercury detected in Yanomami people's hair samples

  

  The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) conducted a series of tests among Yanomami indigenous people in the state of Roraima in northern Brazil which detected the presence of mercury in 84% of the hair samples taken from them in October 2022, Agencia Brasil reported this week. These findings were linked to illegal gold mining in the area.