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The Brazilian State of São Paulo Wednesday declared a public emergency due to the persistence and worsening of the dengue epidemic, Health Secretary Eleuses Paiva announced from the Butantan Institute. The main cause for the change of level is the recognition of the high incidence of the disease in the state - 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants - affecting 225 municipalities. Sixty of these have already instituted municipal emergency decrees due to the disease. State figures confirm [...]

Get our news on your inbox! Suscribe x Brazil's Health Minister Nísia Trinidade Tuesday spoke in favor of creating a regional vaccine production coalition to avoid an encore of the setbacks experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. She made those remarks during a press conference after a G20 Health Ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro ahead of next month's Summit, Agencia Brasil reported. Health ministers from the G20 countries are meeting this week in Rio de Janeiro. [...]

Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) have detected a new species of buffalo shrimp which they named Alpheus Coralvivo after the Living Coral Project, it was reported. The crustacean was said to live on coral reefs off Brazil's northeastern coast. It was found in cavities in the limestone skeleton of fire coral and inside coral gravel on the south coast of Bahia and Río Grande del Norte. The Living Coral Project initiative has for more than two [...]

It was a different subtype of dengue from the one announced last Friday, Uruguay's Health Ministry explained Uruguayan health authorities confirmed Monday the second case of autochthonous dengue in the country, it was reported in Montevideo. ”Today, a second case of dengue was confirmed by the Department of Public Health Laboratory in a person who had no history of travel outside the country, and where the technique carried out allowed us to know that the Dengue serotype, in [...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Monday discussed producing a vaccine against dengue during their meeting at the Planalto Palace, Agencia Brasil reported. Also participating at the gathering was Health Minister Nísia Trindade. A working group on the issue of eliminating contagious diseases under Brazil's presidency of the G20 was also reviewed, according to government sources that [...]

Scientists in Brazil said this week that vaccination against COVID-19 had saved the lives of 63,000 of the country's population over 60 years of age, in addition to preventing some 178,000 hospitalizations of people over 60 years in 2021. Research from the COVID-19 BR Observatory also found that another 47,000 lives could have been saved and 104,000 hospitalizations avoided if immunization had occurred faster, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet Regional Health [...]

A drug against Covid-19 developed at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) will begin testing with a group of 432 volunteers, it was announced Monday. Clinical trials of the SpiN-TEC vaccine have been green-lighted by Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) for the product created at the joint CT Vaccines facilities. According to Fiocruz, the clinical trials will start as soon as the National Research Ethics Commission [...]

Mark Prisk, the UK’s trade envoy to Brazil makes his first visit to Recife this year with the purpose of increasing dialogue between the region and United Kingdom. He will discuss topics such as trade, smart cities and the UK government’s international awards scheme, Chevening in bilaterals with Porto Digital and Fiepe. The Trade Envoy was previously in São Paulo in where he held meetings with government and private sector representatives. Mark was elected as the MP for Hertford and [...]

Scientists from the U.K. and Brazil will work together to study the formation of ocean minerals essential for new technology, particularly environmental technology such as photovoltaic cells.