The chosen location for the memorial, Health Minister Nísia Trindade said, is the ministry’s Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. The disease is reported to have killed 710 thousand Brazilians.
In 2024, the program opened a selection process for the first time to serve vulnerable populations, such as people deprived of their liberty or homeless.
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation's Institute of Immunobiological Technology is now able to fulfill vaccine orders from both the Health Ministry and the UN, among others.
The study was conducted by nine scientists from the Federal University of Goiás. The conclusion is that the vertical transmission to Aedes aegypti eggs—without passing through a host—serves as a new warning to health authorities.
A team from the Ministry of Health is in the northern state of Acre this week to review cases reported as dengue fever which are in fact Oropouche fever.