Data de publicação: 31/08/2022 - 17:06
Image obtained by researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) shows the moment in which a cell undergoes a degeneration process after infection by the monkeypox virus.
Cell alteration caused by viral infection (photo: Milene Dias Miranda, IOC/Fiocruz)
To capture the cytopathic effect in monolayer, as it is called scientifically, inoculation of the clinical sample from an infected patient into Vero lineage cells, a model often...
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Data de publicação: 30/08/2022 - 11:43
By analyzing the data of the beginning of the vaccination against COVID-19 in Brazil, in 2021, a study published on Wednesday (August 17th) in The Lancet Regional health - Americas indicates that primary health care was determining to mitigate the inequalities in the vaccine coverage in Brazil. The research was led by a Fiocruz researcher, in a collaboration with researchers from PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), the...
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Data de publicação: 25/08/2022 - 16:26
This Monday (29/08) begins a new series of four webinars that Fiocruz and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) carry out on infectious diseases. The meetings are the result of a joint effort to promote scientific collaboration, enhance mutual understanding and strengthen national health capacity. Foundation and CAS researchers will discuss microbiology, pandemic prevention and control.
Check the schedule and list of webinar participants...
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Data de publicação: 23/08/2022 - 11:29
A study from Fiocruz Minas observed that vitamin B12 regulates inflammatory processes that, during infection by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, are deregulated and lead to the COVID-19 worsening. The research compared blood samples from hospitalized patients with severe and moderate forms of the disease with blood samples from healthy people (volunteers without COVID-19), analyzing the expression of all genes by the defense cells, the leukocytes, in each...
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Data de publicação: 22/08/2022 - 16:13
At a moment when researchers of Fiocruz program in Antarctica are getting ready for their new expeditions by the end of the year, the Foundation was visited, on the last August 15th, by the new secretary of the Interministerial Committee for the Sea Resources (Secirm/ Brazilian Navy), rear admiral Marco Antonio Linhares. Greeted by Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade de Lima, and by the vice-president of Production and Innovation in Health...
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Data de publicação: 12/08/2022 - 10:34
On this Wednesday (August 10th), the CUIDA Chagas project launches its digital platforms aiming at increasing the visibility of Chagas disease and promoting its activities. Besides the website (www.cuidachagas.org), CUIDA Chagas starts its way on social networks with a Facebook page and Instagram account. The project, coordinated by the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz), has a partnership with the Instituto Nacional de...
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Data de publicação: 10/08/2022 - 11:18
Researchers of Fiocruz Bahia analyzed blood biomarkers to understand the causes of the worsening of COVID-19 in patients with pre-diabetes mellitus. An association was observed between the levels of the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and the development of severe cases of the disease. The study also observed that patients did not present severe sequelae three months after recovering. Led by researchers Natália Machado and Viviane...
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Data de publicação: 04/08/2022 - 12:03
Wednesday (July 27) was the last day of the visit of a delegation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to Fiocruz. The group visited the Foundation to discuss the detailed design of the COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Network Improvement Project. After a series of meetings and visits to Fiocruz laboratories and units, the terms were established in the draft of the meetings, signed on Wednesday. The document is a basis for the...
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Data de publicação: 03/08/2022 - 10:22
A partnership with the World Health Organization that started being drawn in March this year went a step further last Friday (07/29). If four months ago the assistant director general of the WHO’s Division of Intelligence and Surveillance Systems for Emergencies in Health, Chikwe Ihekweazu, brought the proposal that Fiocruz would participate in the Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence that the WHO is assembling in Berlin, this time...
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Data de publicação: 28/07/2022 - 11:49
In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 killed more than three times as many children aged 6 months to 3 years than the sum of all deaths in this age group over the past decade from diseases that can kill and are preventable by vaccines. The data was collected by the Observatory of Health in Childhood - Observes Childhood (Fiocruz/Unifase) from the Mortality Information System (SIM).
For the analysis, researchers Patricia Boccolini and Cristiano Boccolini...
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Data de publicação: 28/07/2022 - 11:23
The Leonidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and non-governmental organizations Indigenous Medicine Center and Health of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon, promoted the Training Workshop of Young Indigenous Communicators, with the theme Indigenous Medicine. The objective was to prepare communicators who will follow in the future the workshops on...
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Data de publicação: 20/07/2022 - 11:34
With the goal of strengthening integrated influenza surveillance and COVID-19, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promoted training for nine countries in the Caribbean region. The course focused on molecular diagnosis and epidemiology of Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas,...
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Data de publicação: 15/07/2022 - 17:17
The applications are open for the 1st International Forum on Social Technology and Innovation for People and The Planet, which will occur from July 19th to 21st in Salvador. The event, which will be hybrid, will gather representatives from Fiocruz, the United Nations (UN), the government of Portugal and European Union, among others, to discuss, mainly, social technology and innovation within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The event...
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Data de publicação: 12/07/2022 - 16:18
Two researchers of the Immunology Department of Fiocruz Pernambuco, Haiana Schindler and Lílian Montenegro, are in Mumbai, India, for scientific activities involving technology transfer as defined in the BRICS-Tuberculosis project. Schindler and Montenegro are, respectively, coordinator and vice-coordinator of the project. The invitation came from Indian scientist Vinay Saini, director of the TUMAAS Foundation & Startup and senior...
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Data de publicação: 06/07/2022 - 14:06
Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 has been killing two children under 5 years old every day in Brazil. Overall, 599 children this age died of COVID-19 in 2020. In 2021, when the lethality of the disease increased among the entire population, the number of children victims of the virus jumped to 840. A total of 1,439 children below 5 years old died of COVID-19 in the country during the first two years of the pandemic. The Northeast...
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Data de publicação: 24/06/2022 - 12:53
A research conducted by the Sabin Vaccine Institute and by Fiocruz Mato Grosso do Sul will evaluate the possibility of fractioning booster doses of vaccines for COVID-19. The research shall reveal if smaller doses can offer the same immunological response with fewer adverse reactions. It would allow to multiply the amount of vaccines, especially in poor countries, and guide new immunization strategies. According to Sabin Institute, only 17.4% of...
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Data de publicação: 10/06/2022 - 16:17
An influent figure in the field of science, technology and innovation, and former Portuguese minister, Manuel Heitor visited Fiocruz last Tuesday, June 7. The professor at the Superior Technical Institute of the University of Lisbon came with two missions: to further expand a collaborative laboratory program that Portuguese institutions already have with the Foundation and to look for new areas for collaboration. By the end of the visit, new...
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Data de publicação: 08/06/2022 - 15:25
The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly was held in Geneva, on 22-28 May 2022, with the theme "Health for peace, peace for health". For dozens of years, World Health Assemblies (WHAs) went unnoticed by the general public. However, since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been drawing the attention of politicians, diplomats and the civil society. Health has become an important part of the big policy. Not only because of...
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2022 - 11:13
Some solutions found by Fiocruz for certain health issues in Brazil, including during the pandemic, could work as a basis for response in other countries. This was one of the conclusions of a group of representatives of Doctors Without Borders (DWB or MSF, in the acronym in portuguese), who visited the Foundation last monday (May 16). They discussed issues such as production and access to vaccines and medicines, effects of COVID-19 on...
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Data de publicação: 20/05/2022 - 17:15
On a six-day trip to Portugal, the president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Nísia Trindade Lima, was received by 14 Portuguese authorities, including three ministers, two rectors, an ambassador, and directors and presidents of institutions involving health, education, technology, and innovation, to deepen and structure inter-institutional cooperation between Fiocruz and Portuguese organizations. The trip took place between the last week...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2022 - 17:10
Half the people diagnosed with COVID-19 present sequelae that may last for more than a year. This is one of the conclusions of a longitudinal study developed at Fiocruz Minas, which evaluated the effects of the disease over time. The research followed, for 14 months, 646 patients who had had the infection, and verified that 324 of them, that is, 50.2%, had post-infection symptoms, characterizing what the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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Data de publicação: 13/05/2022 - 16:36
During a visit to Fiocruz last Friday (6 May), the World Health Organization's (WHO) technical lead for COVID-19 response, Maria Van Kerkhove, debated the learnings and challenges necessary to maintain investments that were focused on the pandemic's preparedness for possible new public health emergencies. After getting to know more about the Foundation’s actions and visiting the Laboratory for Measles and Respiratory Viruses of the...
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Data de publicação: 09/05/2022 - 14:08
Through its Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos), Fiocruz signed last Tuesday (May 3) an agreement of technological cooperation with American pharmaceutical company MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme). The goal is to manufacture in Brazil the first oral antiviral drug to treat COVID-19. Last Wednesday (May 4) afternoon, Brazil’s National Agency for Health Surveillance (Anvisa) released the authorization to use the drug in the country on...
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Data de publicação: 28/04/2022 - 15:05
“There are many nuclear missiles in the world. Why don’t we have enough plants to produce vaccines?” The demand came from Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute, of the University of Oxford. One of the main developers of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Hill attended the Symposium on Emerging and Persisting Global Health Threats, organized by Fiocruz and by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
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