Tag Archives: Brazil

Candida Auris, a lethal yeast, was discovered in Brazil for the first time late last year. According to a new article published this week, the scientists who treated and analyzed these early cases claim the covid-19 epidemic helped establish a breeding habitat for the fungus to sprout and spread inside …

A psychiatrist is getting his homeless and sometimes drug-addicted patients to open up to him by dressing up a clown. Flavio Falcone of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was unable to get through to his patients, so he decided to try a new approach. Wearing a red nose and jester costume, he …

A new genus of mosquitoes has been discovered in Florida by scientists called Aedes scapularis. The mosquitoes were discovered near the Everglades National Park in 2019 by Lawrence Reeves, an entomologist and research scientist with the University of Florida. He claims it’s simple to collect mosquitoes by using dry ice-baited …

Scientists warn that the COVID-19 variant discovered in California is more contagious and more resistant to antibodies from COVID-19 vaccines. According to a Los Angeles Times report, researchers from the University of California San Francisco said that there is also a big concern for the variants found in the United …

Donald Trump is trying to lift some of the current travel restrictions. On Monday, Trump announced that he would be walking back some of the travel restrictions he made at the beginning of the global Covid-19 pandemic. NBC News reports that he plans to open up travel from Europe and …

A Brazilian senator, Chico Rodrigues, was caught in a police raid on Wednesday with money hidden between his buttcheeks. According to Reuters, a judicial source reported the senator was caught amid an investigation into the misuse of COVID-19 response funding. Rodrigues represents the northern state of Roraima and had also …

 Written By @cabbagepatchgrl According to ABC News, four men have been arrested, and four more men are being investigated in southern Italy on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls in a villa where a party was being held Friday. The two 15-year-old girls, who spoke no Italian, were vacationing …

Written by @kristenshylin_ According to the New York Times, members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee accused the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil of asking Brazilian officials to change their trade policies in efforts to get Trump re-elected. Brazilian news outlets previously reported that U.S. Ambassador Todd Chapman pressured Brazilian President …