NewsDesk @bactiman63 The recent resurgence of serotype 3 of the dengue virus in Brazil – which has not caused epidemics in the country for over 15 years – has raised the alarm about the risk of a...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 With the addition of 80,508 new COVID-19 cases in Brazil during the past 24 hours, the pandemic case count in the country has reached 11,019,344 confirmed cases of the disease. Regarding...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The new Brazilian variant of COVID-19 is already present in 91 percent of COVID-19 cases analyzed in the state of Amazonas, which is experiencing a dramatic health collapse,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Brazil reported an additional 38,693 COVID-19 cases Saturday, bringing the total cases to 1,313,667. More than 700,000 people have recovered and...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews On Friday, the Ministry of Health launched the coronavirus prevention advertising campaign, which has already started running on open TV, radio and the internet....

The Technological Institute in Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos / Fiocruz), an organ linked to the Ministry of Health, is the world’s largest producer of the vaccine against yellow fever. Bio-Manguinhos...

Unpublished research conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil detected the presence of Zika virus in mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, collected in the city of Recife. This finding...

Fiocruz, a body linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, found the presence of active Zika virus (with potential to cause infection) in saliva and urine samples, according to a Oswaldo Cruz Foundation...