Epidemiology
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The reality of data
Mapping and systematizing COVID-19 data is crucial to controlling the disease in Brazil
By Redação
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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
By Redação
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Stopping explosive spread
Early social distancing key to faster containment of the novel coronavirus
Medicine
The risks of malaria during pregnancy
Malaria during pregnancy can lead to premature birth and low birth weight
By Redação
Data
Scientific research on coronavirus
The coronaviridae virus family encompasses approximately 40 known species
By Redação
Epidemiology
Health in the balance
Modeling shows that spending cuts in primary care could curb the decline in premature mortality
Video
How does deforestation relate to new pandemics?
See how environmental degradation can favor the emergence of unknown viruses and unleash diseases such as the one caused by the novel coronavirus.
By Redação
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Predicting the spread of a disease
Altay de Souza, an epidemiologist and host of the podcast Naruhodo!, explain how the models which predict the coronavirus advance are built
By Redação
Public health
Kissing bug infestations in the city of São Paulo
Two infestations of kissing bugs, insects that transmit the protozoa that causes Chagas disease, have been identified in the city of São Paulo
By Redação
Biodiversity
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes ride the wind in Africa
High-altitude winds in West Africa can carry insects over great distances
By Redação
Epidemiology
Health in the balance
Spending cuts in primary care could curb decline in premature mortality, modeling shows
Medicine
HIV therapy has prevented 9.5 million deaths
Antiretroviral therapy prevented 9.5 million deaths worldwide between 1995 and 2015, with a global economic benefit of US$1.05 trillion
By Redação
Public health
Ebola outbreak alert level raised in Africa
The World Health Organization has raised the alert level in response to the threat of an Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
By Redacción
Epidemiology
Viruses in monkeys and sloths
Primates and sloths in the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia carry an unexpected range of insect-borne viruses
By Redação
Epidemiology
Potential sylvatic cycle of Zika in Brazil
Brazilian researchers have identified the Zika virus in the carcasses of monkeys found in the interior of São Paulo State and in Minas Gerais
By Redação