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Dengue vaccine: Takeda’s QDENGA® approved in Brazil

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Biopharmaceutical company, Takeda, announced recently the company’s dengue vaccine, QDENGA® (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine [Live, Attenuated]) (TAK-003), was approved in Brazil by...

Brazil: Chikungunya cases increased by about 97% compared to last year; dengue had an increase of 43.8%

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 To monitor the increase in dengue, chikungunya and zika cases in the country, the Ministry of Health installed the Emergency Operations Center (COE Arboviroses), with the aim of developing...

Minas Gerais reports 25,000 confirmed dengue cases to date

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The State Department of Health of Minas Gerais (SES) reports through March 12, 83,911 probable dengue fever cases, including 25,265 confirmed cases were reported. There are nine confirmed...

Brazil reports doubling of chikungunya cases in early 2023

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The number of probable cases of chikungunya in Brazil at the beginning of this year more than doubled compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of...

Top 5 infectious disease posts for February 2023

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Here are the five most popular posts on Outbreak News Today for the month of February 2023: 5. Brazil: ‘Rare’ mosquito-borne virus, Ilheus Virus, sickens Bahia woman A 41-year-old...

Brazil: Mad cow case confirmed as atypical

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Brail’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock confirmed Thursday (Mar. 2) that the case of mad cow disease discovered in the municipality of Marabá, Pará state is atypical (atypical type H), in other...

Brazil: Dengue, chikungunya and Zika in Minas Gerais during the 1st eight weeks of 2023

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Through February 27, health authorities in Minas Gerais state report 50,101 probable cases (notified cases except discarded cases) of dengue. Of this total, 13,802 cases were confirmed...

Brazil reports more than 122,000 new cases of syphilis between January and June 2022

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 In 2021, more than 167,000 new cases of acquired syphilis and 74,000 cases in pregnant women were registered in Brazil. In the same year, another 27,000 occurrences of congenital...

Brazil: More than 52,000 young people aged 15 to 24 with HIV have evolved to AIDS in the last ten years

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The advances that science and technology have brought to the fight against HIV are significant. Knowing the positive serology at an early stage greatly increases the expectation and quality of life of...

Brazil: ‘Rare’ mosquito-borne virus, Ilheus Virus, sickens Bahia woman

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 A 41-year-old woman residing in Simões Filho , in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador , is hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the capital of Bahia after being diagnosed...