Health
The Gold Rush in the Amazon Is Poisoning Fish and People with Mercury
Holding a plastic bottle of toxic mercury with his bare hands on an illegal ...
Brazil Rushes to Save Its Image After Another Ban of Fresh Meat by the US
Brazil rushed to contest a ban on fresh beef imports on Friday after the ...
Brazil’s Teen Pregnancy Study Suggests Issue Needs a Different Approach
Efforts to reduce teen pregnancy rates in Brazil have shown mixed results, and new ...
Basic Sanitation Might Be Coming Soon to a Big Favela in Rio
Brazilian authorities have taken the first step towards providing basic sanitation to more than ...
WHO Comes to the Rescue of Brazil with 3.5 Million Doses of Yellow Fever Vaccine
In response to the yellow fever outbreak currently on-going in Brazil some 3.5 million ...
Yellow Fever Is Wiping Out Brazil’s Howler Monkeys
The deadly yellow fever — an infectious disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus — ...
Something Rotten in the State of Brazil: The Meat they Eat
Meat producing giants JSB SA and BRF SA are among dozens of meatpackers ...
When Housing Rights for Brazil’s Poor Clash with Drinkable Water for 5 Million
On the fringes of São Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded ...
World Champion in C-section, Brazil Celebrates that Normal Birth Is Up 1%
Since 2009, Brazil became the first country in the world where more babies ...
Brazil’s Austerity and a Turn to the Right Restrict Women’s Reproductive Rights
Late last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the Zika virus ...
