A total of 287 hair samples from individuals of various age groups, including children and the elderly, were examined. 84% of them showed levels exceeding 2.0 µg/g.
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.
Amazonas, Pará, and Tocantins states continue to show clear signs of increasing SARS cases due to COVID-19, as well as Mato Grosso in Brazil’s Central-West.
Almost half of employed young people over the age of 18 were exposed, at least once in the 12 months preceding the survey, to factors that could affect their health.
A technical note published by Oxfam Brasil stresses the need to gear up for new disease outbreaks. “While China has more than a thousand factories producing IFA24, in Brazil this number comes near 15,” the document reads.
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