Two PCR tests developed for monkeypox in Brazil
Brazil's state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has developed two types of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to detect the monkeypox...
August 12, 2022Topic
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Scientists recommend Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro 2022 Carnaval demand vaccination certificate for accommodation
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In a city full of corruption and backroom deals, where children are regularly killed by...
October 14, 2021
Brazil President Bolsonaro issues decree providing faster authorization for pesticides
Although the current law foresees a period of 120 days for authorizing or rejecting the use of new pesticides, in...
October 9, 2021
Covid-19 mortality does not rise in any Brazilian state for first time this year – Fiocruz
For the first time in 2021, the Covid-19 mortality rate has not increased in any Brazilian state, noted the Oswaldo...
July 9, 2021
Brazil may return to ‘normal life’ in October – UBS projection
If the expected vaccination rate against the coronavirus is maintained, Brazil may reach some kind of normality as early as...
May 12, 2021
Brazil’s fantastic egg factory assisting Butantan Institute’s vaccine production
Paraná-based Globobiotech has been providing eggs for the production of the influenza and now Covid-19 vaccines by the Butantan Institute...
May 7, 2021
Brazil has 30 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine secured for April, says minister
Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said on Saturday, April 4, that Brazil has 30 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 assured...
April 5, 2021
Brazil faces the greatest health and hospital collapse in its history – Fiocruz report
Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), considered one of the world's main public health research institutions, on Tuesday released a study...
March 17, 2021
Covid in Brazil: One in five people hospitalized died with no access to ICU
In Brazil, 1 in every 5 hospitalized patients with coronavirus complications died with no access to an ICU bed since...
March 11, 2021