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Epidemiology

FIOCRUZ – 120 YEARS

A continuum of challenges

From the bubonic plague to Zika fever, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s 120-year history has been punctuated by a succession of novel diseases and related discoveries

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COVID-19

The pandemic detectives

Health professionals use a variety of methods and instruments to follow the trail of the novel coronavirus and to try to contain the epidemic

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COVID-19

Back to school?

Obstacles to resuming classroom teaching caused by the worsening pandemic, problems with mass testing, and behavior outside school

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COVID-19

Restaurants spread infections in the United States

A study suggests that the majority of novel coronavirus infections recorded between March and May this year occured in restaurants in metropolitan areas in the USA

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INTERVIEW

Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho: Diseases as complex objects

Epidemiologist warns that the pandemic cannot be described solely through the virus or the infection caused by it

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COVID-19

Limited transmission

Studies suggest that children and adolescents do not spread SARS-CoV-2 any more than adults

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COVID-19

The mystery of reinfections

Evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the same person more than once is challenging our understanding of the virus and how we combat the disease

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COVID-19

Global pandemic tactics

With a wide range of strategies adopted to slow the spread of the disease, some countries have fared better than others

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Careers

Indigenous knowledge

Tuyuka doctor battles COVID-19 in the Amazon

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COVID-19

Healthy spaces

The knowledge acquired during past pandemics, especially long-term ones, can help us face the current one

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COVID-19

The fatality conundrum

Difficulties identifying the exact number of people infected and killed make it hard to calculate how deadly the disease is

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Why the Covid-19 vaccine is important

Never before so many vaccines have been developed at the same time against a single disease, nor so rapidly | 7'32

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The uncertainty of herd immunity

With a lack of scientific consensus on the subject, experts warn that protection measures against COVID-19 must be maintained

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COVID-19

High levels of asymptomatic infection in children

Clinical data suggest that although children and young adults tend to develop milder symptoms of COVID-19, they can be silent spreaders of the disease

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Genomics

Disease-immune orange trees

New cultivars developed at the Campinas Agronomic Institute using tangerine genes show resistance to citrus variegated chlorosis

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The risk of traveling by plane

The probability of catching a respiratory virus, such as the novel coronavirus, is high for those close to a contaminated passenger and low for those further away

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The puzzle of immunity

Crucial questions about the response of the immune system to the novel coronavirus remain unanswered

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The challenge of calculating R

Poor data makes the effective reproduction rate difficult to track and is hampering the pandemic response

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INTERVIEW

Cristiana Toscano: An unprecedented global effort

According to the only Brazilian member of a WHO vaccine committee, we are experiencing unprecedented worldwide collaboration to develop a vaccine in record time

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COVID-19

More than 100 different strains of the novel coronavirus identified in Brazil

More than 100 strains of SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Brazil, but only three spread across the country

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Covid-19

Restoring trust

In the midst of the pandemic a new study measures high rates of confidence in science

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Predicting the course of epidemics

Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties

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Covid-19

The size of the pandemic

Lag times in case reporting can hurt government efforts to contain spread of COVID-19

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Brazil begins testing

To better understand the spreading pandemic, research initiatives aim to increase the scale of COVID-19 diagnoses throughout the country

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The reality of data

Mapping and systematizing COVID-19 data is crucial to controlling the disease in Brazil

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The antivirus arsenal

The search for an effective treatment for COVID-19 includes testing drugs already used against other diseases and even plasma

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Science fights back

In just four months, 8,000 scientific articles have been published on Covid-19, more than 70 drugs tested against SARS-CoV-2, and the first vaccines trialed on humans

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Stopping explosive spread

Early social distancing key to faster containment of the novel coronavirus

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Interview

Ester Cerdeira Sabino: Tailing the coronavirus

Researcher who coordinated the genetic sequencing of the new coronavirus strain believes the disease should reach its peak in Brazil between the end of April and the beginning of May

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Coronavirus advances in Brazil

Covid-19 arrives with force as the country grapples with a dengue epidemic

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