The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) conducted a series of tests among Yanomami indigenous people in the state of Roraima in northern Brazil which detected the presence of mercury in 84% of the hair samples taken from them in October 2022, Agencia Brasil reported this week. These findings were linked to illegal gold mining in the area.
The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has warned of an alarming increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Brazilian States of Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rio Grande do Sul.
Brazil s Health Ministry has increased to 31 the number of laboratories nationwide equipped to corroborate if a patient s infection corresponds to monkeypox through the delivery of testing kits developed and produced by the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
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