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U.S. Issues Travel Alert for Brazil Due to Zika Virus
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a level 2...
Opinion: Brazil’s Zika Crisis … Not!
Opinion by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian media are buzzing like flies about a virus called Zika, which, like its cousin dengue,...
Microcephaly Cases Linked to Zika Virus Surge in Brazil
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Health Ministry in Brazil announced on Tuesday that more than three thousand cases of...
Zika Virus, Carried by Mosquitos, Linked to Birth Defects in Brazil
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Health in Brazil has confirmed that there is a link between the...
Rio May Register Surge in Dengue/Zika Virus Cases
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Health officials in Rio are bracing for a possible increase in cases of patients with...
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Combat Dengue in Brazil’s Niterói
For over eight years, the Brazilian city of Niterói has been implementing an innovative public health strategy to combat dengue fever by releasing genetically...
Dourados Leads Brazil’s Dengue Fight with Vaccination Drive
The Brazilian city of Dourados kickstarted the nation's first large-scale dengue vaccination on Wednesday, targeting 150,000 residents with Takeda's QDENGA vaccine.
This move marks a...
Brazil Leads in Global Dengue Surge
In 2023 Brazil reported the highest number of dengue cases globally, reaching 2.9 million, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
These cases form over...
Chikungunya outbreak in Paraguay records 264 fatalities
Paraguay's Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare reported on Tuesday that there have been 264 confirmed fatalities from chikungunya fever since the outbreak...
Dengue type 3 resurges in Brazil and worries specialists
The recent resurgence of dengue virus serotype 3 in Brazil - which has not caused an epidemic in the country for more than 15...
Institutions from Brazil and China announce partnership on a disease prevention center
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) announced today the signing of an agreement to establish a Sino-Brazilian Infectious Disease Research and Prevention Center (IDRPC) with...
Chikungunya killed more than dengue in the last decade in Ceará, Brazil – study
According to an epidemiological study published in The Lancet Microbe journal, Ceará has been the Brazilian State most affected by chikungunya fever in the...
Bolivia reports a yellow fever case on the border with Brazil
Bolivian health authorities recorded a case of yellow fever on the border with Brazil.
This happens 19 years after the last documented contagion in the...
Dengue deaths in Brazil hit record high in 2022
Brazil recorded 2022 as the year with the most dengue deaths in its history, with 1,016 fatalities caused by the disease.
Meanwhile, another 109 cases...