Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Rio fights dengue fever explosion ahead of Olympics

Rio de Janeiro launched an operation to wipe out dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes Wednesday, after an explosion of cases of the potentially deadly tropical disease hit the 2016 Olympics host city.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Changes in penile length after radical prostatectomy studied

(HealthDay)—Although penile shortening of about 1 cm can occur at three months after a radical prostatectomy (RP) for the treatment of localized prostate cancer, recovery of penile length begins after 24 months and is complete ...

Medications

Brazil claims successful test of parasite vaccine

Brazilian researchers say they have successfully tested a vaccine against schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Rio declares dengue epidemic

Rio de Janeiro has declared a dengue epidemic after diagnosing more than 50,000 cases of the tropical mosquito-borne infection this year and over 500 in the last week alone.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Brazil on dengue fever alert ahead of carnival

Sao Paulo opened an emergency operations center Tuesday to deal with a surge in dengue fever cases that has hit Brazil and South America just as millions of tourists arrive for carnival celebrations.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Omicron surge in Brazil hospitalizing the unvaccinated

There has been a renewed surge of COVID-19 in Brazil with the spread of the omicron variant and, as elsewhere in the world, it is largely a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Brazil registers new record of daily COVID cases

Brazil registered a new record number of daily COVID-19 cases of more than 137,000, according to figures supplied by the health ministry on Tuesday.

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