The work of Andrade and colleagues highlights the stark changes in substance abuse-related mortality in Brazil during the ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

"It gives the people a fake feeling of safety." In Brazil, the new epicenter of the world's COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are overflowing, health care workers are stretched beyond their limits and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Brazil surpassed 6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the health ministry said, as the world's third-worst coronavirus outbreak begins to surge again ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Maguito Vilela was elected mayor of the Brazilian city of Goiânia on Sunday, but he has yet to find out. That's because he has spent much of the last month in an ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, where rivers are the only highways, the coronavirus pandemic is sharply limiting boat traffic, leaving villages even more cut off from the world than ...

A new coronavirus has been found in Brazil, but it's still unclear what threat it poses to humans. The virus was discovered ...

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