Experts have warned that the outbreak will worsen because of a slow vaccine rollout, highly transmissible variants, and President Bolsonaro's inaction.

A new variant of influenza A was detected in Belém in an adult patient, a woman from Fiji, and was classified as an imported ...

On Monday (Dec. 8), Brazil’s national drug authority Anvisa published the registration of the dengue vaccine developed by the ...

Brazil has launched the world's largest biofactory for mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacterium, a natural method to ...

A new coronavirus has been found in Brazil that shares key features with the one that sparked the global Covid pandemic. Scientists in the US and Japan detected the strain after capturing bats living ...

GENEVA, 18 December 2025 –UNAIDS congratulates Brazil in attainting the certification for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis as determined by the World Health ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have been diagnosed with a lethal, incurable virus, the government said in a ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...