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Brazil opens insulin-producing plant

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday participated in the city of Nova Lima, state of Minas Gerais, in the opening of the Biomm recombinant human insulin-producing plant. The Government will purchase the entire output to make it available free of charge nationwide for diabetes patients. The facility is said to have cost around R$ 800 million (US$ 156 million) through loans from public banks. The South American country currently imports 95% of the insulin it uses. Some 15.7 million adults are said to have the malady nationwide.

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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.

The Zika vaccine developed in Brazil proved effective in experiments on mice — DNOTICIAS.PT

Scientific sources indicated on Friday that a vaccine against Zika developed by Brazilian researchers has proven effective against the virus in tests

Fiocruz and Caring Cross Announce Collaboration Agreement to Enable Access to Affordable CAR-T Therapy in Brazil and Latin America

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Amazonas issues epidemic alert for Oropouche, a disease similar to dengue

The Amazonas Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS) has issued an epidemiological alert about the detection of cases of Orobovirus disease (OROV), a virus

Dengue fever: Brazil rushes out vaccine as climate change fuels unprecedented surge

Health authorities in Brazil are rushing out limited supplies of a recently approved vaccine as they struggle to contain an unprecedented surge in dengue fever. Several of Brazil’s most populous states have declared health emergencies in the past month just ahead of carnival season as rising global temperatures and heavy rains brought outbreaks of the tropical disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Brazil has recorded 512 000 dengue cases so far this year—more than three times the number recorded for the same period last year. “We may see the largest number of dengue cases on record this year,” Fabiano Duarte Carvalho, a biologist at Brazil’s public health research institute, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), told Bloomberg. “The climate crisis has a direct impact on the proliferation of vectors such as Ae aegypti .” Around three quarters of dengue cases are symptomless but the disease can be fatal. Symptoms include headaches, fever, and intense joint pain while serious cases can take several weeks to recover from. Brazil was predicted to have a serious outbreak this …

Brazil to propose global alliance against hunger and poverty to G20

Brazil will today propose to the G20 a global alliance against hunger and poverty, coinciding with the South American country's rotating presidency of the

Brazil: Six state capitals begin vaccinating children against dengue

Health authorities in Brazil started Friday vaccinating children against dengue in six out the the ten State capitals chosen to start the South American Country's immunization program for which 712,000 doses were made available. The distribution of dengue vaccines to 315 municipalities began on February 8.