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A study coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is helping to understand why some critically ill patients submitted to mechanical ventilation manage to leave the ICU, while others do not survive. The research indicates that the presence of the human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) is associated not only with worsening disease but also with early mortality.
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The dengue virus is one of the greatest threats to public health in globe tropical regions, and especially in Brazil, where annual epidemics lead to thousands of Brazilians sickness. In the year 2019 alone, there were 2.1 million cases. However, something very intriguing happened in the years 2017-2018, right after the zika, dengue and chikungunya virus’s triple epidemic in 2016. Dengue fever case numbers were reported well below average until its resurgence in 2019.
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A mixture of expectation and hope took over Botucatu, in the interior of São Paulo, this weekend. The city was chosen to be the stage for an unprecedented research that kicked off last Sunday (5/16), with the mass vaccination against COVID-19 of the entire adult population. More than 63,000 Botucatu residents were immunized in just one day, exceeding the expectation that 60,000 people would receive the first dose this Sunday.
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The name of the most recent seminar of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS in the Portuguese acronym), last Wednesday (May 12th), came from a question: Ibero-America - A New Space for Health Diplomacy? And it ended with an answer. For most of the event’s attendees, diplomats and experts on both sides of the Atlantic, the pandemic accelerated a process of cooperation that had already been taking place in the region, put health under the spotlight, and showed that a common response is needed for a common problem. “It is not the diplomacy of the disease or the vaccine.
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There is little data available on the mental health of young indigenous people. In this context, between December 2020 and January 2021, scientists from the Research Center Leônidas & Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazonia) carried out a diagnostic study that involved eight regions of the Amazon and that resulted in a better understanding of the effects of COVID-19 in this population group. “The study focused on the understanding of the knowledge, the attitudes and the practices (KAP) of young people on mental health during this pandemic period.
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Fiocruz is taking part of the survey COVID-19: our care, our actions, their effects, with the goal of getting to know better the treatments and preventive actions that people from all over the world have been experiencing in the context of the disease. Spearheaded by the Antenna Foundation, a Swiss NGO that offers technological and medical solutions to populations in need, the survey boasts the collaboration of universities and research institutions from 13 countries.
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Although studies suggest that children and adolescents attending summer camps and social events may carry COVID-19 into their homes, work by researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the University of California (UCLA), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) indicates that they more often become infected by adults than act as transmitters.
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Establishing a dialog between scientific development and social development was one of the proposals presented by Fiocruz’s president, Nísia Trindade Lima, in the event What Needs to be Done?: Biomedical and Public Health Research in Brazil and the US Post-COVID, promoted by Yale University. The president emphasized the social nature of the pandemic and the need to consider the organization of social protection as a fundamental axis for post-COVID-19 recovery.
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“If you ask me whether we were prepared for this pandemic, I say that, obviously, we were not. If the question is whether we should be prepared for the next pandemics, I clearly say yes. We heard a lot of talk about the resilience and strengthening of healthcare systems, but we must turn speeches into actions.” This was one of the statements made by Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), last Friday (April 30), in her presentation at the Advanced Seminars on Global Health and Health Diplomacy, organized by Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS).
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Promoting the discussion on new strategies to increase research, technological development, and innovation at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), with speakers from development agencies and national and international academic centers dedicated to new methodologies for the governance of science and technology, technological and scientific prospecting, knowledge and innovation management.
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The pandemic brought challenges, but also opportunities, according to lecturers on the 6th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the STI Forum. In Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the forum’s first session, on Tuesday May 4th, specialists on the fields of sciences, technology and economics analyzed the scenario and looked for ways to recover and prevent a new global sanitation crisis. Among them was the President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima.
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The pandemic brought challenges, but also opportunities, according to lecturers on the 6th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the STI Forum. In Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the forum’s first session, on Tuesday May 4th, specialists on the fields of sciences, technology and economics analyzed the scenario and looked for ways to recover and prevent a new global sanitation crisis. Among them was the President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima.
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The director of Fiocruz Minas, Zélia Profeta, was invited to be a member of the Council on the Economics of Health for All, recently created by the World Health Organization (WHO). The invitation was sent by WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom and Professor Mariana Mazzucato of University College London, who will coordinate the Council.
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A study by Fiocruz and WWF-Brasil shows that the wildfires in the Amazon were responsible for the increase in the percentages of hospitalizations due to respiratory problems in the last 10 years (2010-2020) in states with higher numbers of hot spots: Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amazonas and Acre.
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Two drugs used against hepatitis C have been proven effective in inhibiting Sars-CoV-2 replication in cells in laboratory studies. The trial is now entering its phase 2: tests in patients. The results of the first phase of the trial, led by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), were published on April 21 in a paper for the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, by Oxford Academic. The results of phase 2 will likely be known in the second semester of 2021.
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The Presidency of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) signed, on April 20, an international cooperation agreement with the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), to establish the basis to implement a joint work plan for the upcoming years. The two institutions have worked together at previous occasions in different research projects and scientific publications.
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Published on April 24, the Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, referring to Epidemiological Weeks (EW) 14 and 15, between 4 and 17 April, presents a general overview of the Covid-19 situation in the country and its implications. The new edition shows that the pandemic is hitting younger people. The number of cases and deaths by Covid-19 per age group shows that the differential increase per age group is steady.
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A study by researchers of the Oxford University shows that the risk of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in people with COVID-19 is considerably higher than in those who have been vaccinated with mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines, such as those by Pfizer and Moderna. In addition to mRNA vaccines, the analysis also included the Oxford/AstraZeneca immunizer, produced in Brazil by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
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The emergence of COVID-19 and the entire context of the pandemic humankind has been facing has raised an alert for the possible appearance of other emerging and re-emerging epidemics that may occur as a consequence of the interferences suffered by Brazilian biomes — deforestation and destruction of ecosystems.
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Remembered for the second consecutive year, World Chagas Disease Day was marked in Fiocruz on 14/4, with an event that had not only tributes to those who helped in the research and fight against the disease, but also with the look on the future. In addition to the tributes to the researchers of the institution Zilton Andrade and José Rodrigues Coura, who have died, there was the agreement with Unitaid of CUIDA Chagas virtual signing, a project that aims to eliminate the disease congenital transmission in Latin American countries.
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A “pandemic of inequalities”, which denies people access to water to wash their hands, is one of the factors that have worsened the dissemination of Sars-CoV-2 in Latin America and in the Caribbean. This is the assessment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet. A physician herself, last Thursday (April 15) she opened the Advanced Seminaries on Global Health and Health Diplomacy of the Center of International Relations in Health (Cris/Fiocruz).
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The Conference On Expanding Africa’s Vaccine, organized by the African Union and the Centers for Disease Control in Africa (CDC Africa), held on 12 and 13/4, had the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) president as one of the speakers on Tuesday. During Session 8, on the Partnership with Foundations for Vaccine Production, Nísia reaffirmed Fiocruz's commitment to a South-South agenda to support the needs of the African continent in strengthening its health system, preparing for disease emergencies, and providing the population with access to medical care.
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Many viruses can hamper coagulation, including those that cause dengue fever and yellow fever. In more severe cases, they may lead to bleeding. This is why these diseases are considered hemorrhagic viral fevers.
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After 6 years of the epidemic that put Northeast Brazil in its epicenter, the Zika virus and its consequences may be away from the spotlight, but it is still a burden that needs to be addressed. From March 15th to18th, researchers from the four corners of the world who participated in one of the greatest Zika research consortiums gathered virtually (due to the current pandemic) to discuss its results and ways forward. The event marked the closing of the project, which promoted studies in a variety of areas from clinical research, to entomology and social science research.
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A methodology that aims to make the monitoring of the new coronavirus variants simpler and faster, besides being cheaper, has just been developed at Fiocruz Pernambuco. It is based on a technique that is already widely used and available in Brazil and in the world, the Sanger sequencing - also called sequencing by capillary electrophoresis.
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On April 14, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation will hold the first PrInt Fiocruz-Capes virtual seminar in 2021. The event is part of a series of integrated seminars between researchers from Fiocruz and Germany, with a diverse thematic. The meeting will be held from 9 am to 11:30 am (Brasilia Time), with transmission through the Fiocruz channel on YouTube.
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