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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), through the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos), provides the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine (recombinant) produced with the national Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API). The first batch of national vaccines was released by the internal quality control of Bio-Manguinhos on 2/14.
“The release of the first 100% Brazilian COVID-19 vaccines, now available to the Ministry of Health, is a milestone in Brazilian self-sufficiency and the strengthening of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (CEIS in the Portuguese acronym). Having…
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The Fiocruz Genomic Network has released new data on the status of lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 in Brazil, based on the genomic surveillance produced by the Network and by other initiatives. According to the publication, while in December 39.4% of sequenced genomes belonged to the Omicron variant, in January 2022 this rate rose to 95.9%. The variant has now been found in all of the country’s regions. The Network Report shows that omicron now fully dominates the epidemiological scenario of Covid-19 in Brazil. It also highlights technological innovations developed by the Fiocruz…
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As reported by the State Health Secretariats of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, Fiocruz has identified three cases of the BA.2 lineage of the Omicron variant, using genetic sequencing. Two of the cases occurred in Rio de Janeiro and the other in the southern state of Santa Catarina. The findings were confirmed by the Laboratory of Measles and Respiratory Viruses of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), a national reference center for respiratory viruses for the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which has been mapping genomes of the virus since early in the pandemic. The laboratory is part…
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A study analyzed the geographic distribution and the incidence of co-infection with a human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) and a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Bahia, which is an endemic state for both retroviruses. The research was carried out using all samples submitted to serological tests at the Central Public Health Laboratory of Bahia (Lacen-BA), from 2004 to 2013. The total was about 130,000 samples from 358 of the 417 municipalities in Bahia. The research results, coordinated by Fiocruz Bahia researcher Maria Fernanda Grassi, were published in the Frontiers in Medicine journal. In…
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1900 - Establishment of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute on May, 25.
1904 - Beginning of the construction of the Plague Pavilion, Stables, Aquarium and Dove House construction.
1905 - Beginning of the Moorish Pavilion construction. The name of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute is changed to Manguinhos Experimental Pathology Institute.
1907 - Oswaldo Cruz is awarded with a gold medal at the 14th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Berlin for the sanitation work carried out in Rio de Janeiro.
1908 - Decree 6892 changes the name of the the Manguinhos…
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Diseases transmitted from animals to humans, such as spotted fever, Q fever, hantavirus diseases, and arenavirus diseases present early clinical symptoms that are similar to those of other infections, including fever, headache, or aches in the body, and malaise. Amidst an epidemic, when all eyes are focused on diseases that are circulating widely, such as dengue fever or Covid-19, these zoonoses are often forgotten when diagnosing a patient. This leads to delayed identification, therefore increasing the risk of severe disease and death.
Researchers from Hantavirus and Rickettsia…
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The war in Ukraine has been thoroughly divulged, discussed, and explained on all social media platforms, in Brazil and abroad. Its geopolitical, economic, and social consequences have also been explored by specialists of all fields of knowledge and geographical position. However, there is one dimension that has been left out by this widely encompassing debate: the matter of health.
On the other hand, more attentive readers will certainly not have missed the term “others” in the title. It turns out that dozens of other wars are currently ongoing all over the world, in the Global South, but…
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O site Curta Biodiversidade ganhou novo visual e trouxe várias novidades. Reformulado com recursos da Faperj e fruto do projeto Ecologia, História e Saúde: o desenvolvimento de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade brasileira para instituições de ensino e pesquisa do estado do Rio de Janeiro, o portal apresenta agora informações e vídeos relacionados a três séries de TV, um laboratório de criação de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade, notícias, um catálogo de espécies e muito mais.
Com três temporadas lançadas e uma quarta prevista para o primeiro semestre de 2023, Parques…
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A study by researchers of Fiocruz and of the University of Columbia has identified promising results in a combination of antiviral drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Scientists showed that there is a synergy between the substances, inhibiting the enzymes that allow Sars-CoV-2 to multiply more effectively. Together, the drugs may reduce viral replication about ten times more than if taken separately.
The drugs studied are already approved for the treatment of other diseases
The study, published on February 22 on Communications Biology, a Nature publication, showed that inhibitors of…
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During a conference in London, attended by the world’s most prominent health authorities and specialists, Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, emphasized the need to decentralize vaccine production and to strengthen investments in research and development, in order to reduce inequalities between countries. Her statement was made during the Global Summit for Preparation for Pandemics, last Tuesday (March 8th). Organized by the Coalition for Epidemics Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) and by the United Kingdom, the event was looking for support for the #100DaysMission campaign, so that in…
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March is celebrated as the month of International Women’s Day, but it is also the time to debate gender inequalities and guarantee of rights. This issue was highlighted by the ambassador of UN Women for Latin America, María del Carmen Squeff, at the Advanced Seminar in Global Health and Health Diplomacy of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz), last Wednesday (March 9th). At the event, which was attended by researchers in the field, she highlighted the agency’s priorities for 2022 and emphasized the importance of alliances with institutions such as Fiocruz.
“The origin of…
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An article published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, last Monday (March 7th), reveals the potential use of synthetic biosensors in rapid, decentralized, and low-cost tests for the diagnosis of patients infects with the zika virus. The study was led by scientists of the University of Toronto (CA), who developed the sensors and the portable digital platform where samples are processed, and had the partnership of researchers from Fiocruz Pernambuco to evaluate this technique, using samples of patients from Recife (in the state of Pernambuco). It is one of the first field trials applying…
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In reference to International Women’s Day, the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, paid homage to five female scientists that are part of the institution's international scientific cooperation network. Among them, representing the Americas, was researcher Teca Galvão, from the Laboratory for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz).
The homage highlighted the specialist’s education, which includes several foreign institutions, and her commitment to research how the resistance to antibiotics is determined by genetic diversity in bacteria isolated from…
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Entre 2017 e 2019, uma epidemia de febre amarela assolou diversas regiões do país. No Rio de Janeiro, por exemplo, após quase 80 anos sem registros da doença, 289 pessoas foram infectadas e outras 93 morreram. Publicado na revista científica Parasites and Vectors, um estudo liderado pelo Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) em parceria com o Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais (IFNMG) revela características importantes desse surto, que podem contribuir para o planejamento de ações de vigilância e controle do agravo.
A pesquisa cruza dados sobre infecções humanas, de primatas e de…
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Through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos) and French laboratory Servier, Fiocruz signed, last Thursday (March 10th), a Memorandum of Understanding for technical cooperation to develop new drugs against chronic diseases, from a new pharmaceutical platform. This is an innovative technology based on the prolonged release of the active ingredient in the body, resulting in efficacy, safety, and more compliance and practicality for patients.
Nísia Trindade Lima signs the Memorandum of Understanding for technical cooperation with Servier (Image: Cito Oiticica)
Initially, the…
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The Global Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH) has already started organizing the celebrations of World Human Milk Donation Day - 19 May. The first step consists in choosing the slogan for social mobilization for the donation of human milk in 2022.
Applications must be submitted between the 14th and the 25th of March.
“Human Milk Donation: Solidarity and Peace in a Globalized World” is the theme of social mobilization chosen for this year. The slogan that brings more innovation, originality, good applicability and that communicates well the message of the theme; will be available to the rBLH…
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A Fiocruz celebrou nesta terça-feira (8/3) o Dia Internacional das Mulheres. Um dos destaques foi o debate Mulheres em ação na pandemia, que reuniu, nesta manhã, em uma plataforma online, pesquisadoras, gestoras e estudantes, que apresentaram suas trajetórias e conquistas e comentaram os desafios que ainda persistem para milhões de mulheres em todo o mundo. Em vídeo gravado e exibido logo no início do debate, a presidente da Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, lembrou que a Fundação deu início às atividades pelo Dia da Mulher deste ano em 11 de fevereiro, quando se comemorou o Dia Internacional das…
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Com o objetivo de ampliar a divulgação de notícias sobre Covid-19 para pessoas com deficiências auditivas, a Coordenação de Comunicação Social (CCS/Fiocruz) lançou um programa semanal que reúne as principais notícias publicadas na Agência Fiocruz de Notícias (AFN) traduzidas para a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) e com áudio em português.
Confira outras edições do AFN Acessibilidade.
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Um estudo demonstrou que o consumo de carne de caça – de animais como roedores, antas, porcos selvagens, veados e aves –, muito comum entre os ribeirinhos da Amazônia, pode reduzir as taxas de anemia infantil por ser uma fonte alimentar rica em ferro. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma parceria entre o Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazonia), a Lancaster University, do Reino Unido, a Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e a Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).
Pesquisa indicou que cerca de dois terços das crianças de domicílios rurais mais vulneráveis à pobreza foram…
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O pesquisador Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, do Laboratório de Flavivirus do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz), é um dos 15 cientistas convidados pela revista científica Nature Methods para apresentar abordagens que podem contribuir para combater futuras ameaças causadas por microrganismos emergentes. Na publicação, o virologista descreve o projeto VigECoV-2, desenvolvido pelo IOC em parceria com Laboratórios Centrais de Saúde Pública (Lacens), Ministério da Saúde, Organização Pan-americana da Saúde (Opas) e Institutos Nacionais de Saúde dos Estados Unidos (NIH, na sigla em inglês).
Como…
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Como parte das atividades em função do Dia Mundial de Chagas, celebrado na última quinta-feira (14/4), a Fiocruz realizou, nesta segunda-feira (19/4), o evento Reflexões e desafios para o futuro, quando houve o lançamento da série temática das Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Na ocasião, pesquisadores e a presidente da Fundação, Nisia Trindade Lima, chamaram atenção para a importância da visibilidade aos afetados e os obstáculos ainda existentes para o enfrentamento do que ainda é considerado um problema de saúde pública.
“Desde que o Dia Mundial de Chagas foi instituído, a referência…
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Doença que havia sido considerada eliminada no Brasil pela Organização Pan-Americana de Saúde/Organização Mundial da Saúde (Opas/OMS) em 2016, o sarampo voltou a circular em território nacional em 2018. Para evitar uma epidemia da doença e se livrar dela novamente, o Ministério da Saúde (MS) lançou a Campanha de Vacinação contra o Sarampo em 2022, no dia 4 de abril, simultaneamente à vacinação contra a Influenza.
Como acontece com todas as vacinas do Programa Nacional de Imunizações (PNI), antes de serem distribuídos aos postos de vacinação e aplicados na população, estes…
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A Fiocruz recebeu (12/4) a visita do procurador-geral de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Luciano Oliveira Mattos de Souza, e da coordenadora do Centro de Apoio Operacional das Promotorias de Justiça de Tutela Coletiva de Defesa da Saúde do Ministério Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Marcia Lustosa. O encontro foi pautado por uma reunião dos representantes do MP do Estado do Rio de Janeiro com Mario Moreira, vice-presidente de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Institucional da Fiocruz, e com Luis Donadio, coordenador do Escritório de Captação de Recursos, para apresentar a atuação do…
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A Fiocruz promoveu, nesta terça-feira (19/4), a aula inaugural do seu ano acadêmico. O evento teve como destaque a conferência Duzentos anos da “questão indígena”, proferida pela antropóloga luso-brasileira Maria Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, uma referência nos estudos sobre etnologia e antropologia histórica e há décadas militante do direito dos povos indígenas do Brasil. Antes da aula inaugural, ocorreu a cerimônia de filiação da Fiocruz à Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC).
Fiocruz promoveu, nesta terça-feira (19/4), a aula inaugural do seu ano acadêmico (foto: Peter…
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A Fiocruz Ceará irá receber um pesquisador do Instituto Pasteur e dará início a trabalhos integrados de pesquisa, visando a instalação da Plataforma Fiocruz-Pasteur no campus da Fundação no Eusébio, Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza. O anúncio foi feito pelo representante do Ministério da Europa e das Relações Exteriores da França, Leandro Batista, durante o evento que reuniu cientistas das duas Instituições e da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), na Fiocruz Ceará. “O governo francês é um parceiro histórico do Instituto Pasteur de Paris e acredita que a ciência deve guiar respostas à saúde…
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For the World Chagas Disease Day, celebrated on April 14, Fiocruz organized a series of activities last week. Among the actions are two online events with lectures and debates about the challenges and possibilities to fight the disease. Last Monday, on one of these occasions, the theme series Memorias of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute was launched, with 15 reflection papers by authors from all over the world and from different areas of knowledge.
Fiocruz Mourisco Castle receives special lighting in allusion to World Chagas Day (photo: Peter Ilicciev)
It is estimated that Chagas disease affects…
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Fiocruz Ceará will welcome a researcher from Pasteur Institute and begin integrated research works aiming at setting up the Fiocruz-Pasteur Platform at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation campus in Eusébio, in Fortaleza’s Metropolitan Area, in the state of Ceará. The announcement was made by the representative of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Leandro Batista, during the event that gathered scientists from both Institutions and from the University of São Paulo (USP), at Fiocruz Ceará. “The French Government is a historical partner of Pasteur Institute, Paris and believes that…
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The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia), in a partnership with the Tropical Medicine Foundation (FMT), is participating in a pre-clinical trial project for a vaccine against the vivax variety of malaria. The project has just had its sponsoring approved by the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) of Japan. The research is coordinated by researcher Shigeto Yoshida, of the University of Kanazawa, and its partners are, in addition to Fiocruz Amazônia, the universities of Hokkaido, Kyoto, Toyama, and the Jichi Medical University, in Japan, as well as Cambridge…
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