A study by the Osvaldo Cruz Foundation from Rio de Janeiro found that in countries such as the United States and Great Britain, as many as one in seven death could attribute feed with a lot of industrial food Researchers compared data from eight countries, particularly on nutrition and mortality, reports Deutsche Welle (DW) a clear connection - the more calories consumed through industrial food a nutritionist-epidemiologist from this foundation told DW that previous research was too narrow because they looked at certain foods "We need to look at the matrix of the whole diet," he states work is already being done to promote a healthier diet The University of São Paulo divided the food into four groups The third group includes canned fruits and vegetables is everything that is made industrially with derivatives of fats That "infamous" group automatically includes chocolates Over-processed food is often called "junk food" in slang and everyone knows that you shouldn't overdo it These foods are linked to 32 diseases or health effects from obesity to diabetes and heart disease Of the eight countries compared by Brazilian scientists precisely those in Latin America have the lowest share of over-processed food in the population's diet At the opposite pole are the Anglo-Saxon countries - Australia "It's no surprise that countries with a more developed food culture are more resistant to ultra-processed foods and have maintained healthier habits," Nilsson tells us it's not easy - and often not cheap - to always eat healthy Nielson and his group of researchers are therefore advocating that things be reversed sugary foods and drinks are taxed more heavily we introduced a zero tax rate on fresh or minimally processed food," he says Farmers are encouraged to grow a variety of crops Organic production is included in the delivery of meals for school canteens "All countries should do the same because the evidence is very convincing," says the Brazilian scientist The American National Institute of Health is also dealing with the impact of too much processed food Faced with a possible policy change and criticism some manufacturers are phasing out synthetic dyes and other additives themselves The US Food and Drug Administration last week urged manufacturers to "replace petrochemical dyes with natural ingredients for the benefit of American children just as is already being done in Europe and Canada." 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Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience DOWAGIAC — Dowagiac Union High School recently released its honor roll for its second semester Students who achieved a 4.0 GPA are noted with an * High Honors are students that achieved a 3.4 to 4.0 GPA Honors are students who achieved a 3.0 to 3.39 GPA Abbey Dobberstein*; Alivia Ausra; Andrew Bryant; Michael Burks; Elizabeth Burns; Aubrey Busby; Talan Gilliam; Faith Green; Natasha Griggs; Isiah Hill; Ty’lisia Horton-Epps; Jamie Howard; Hayley Jones; Hazel Kelly; Thomas Pierce; Jenna Pressley; Travis Rehborg; Blake Sheffer; Brooklyn Smith; Dane Spagnoli; Luke Spagnoli; Jayden Vandenburg; Maggie Weller McKenna Danzy; Alexandra Gasca; Brenden Hart; Chlorissa Hemenway; Ximena Hernandez; Jaserra Horton; Jorge Meza; Jess Pinkowski; Connor Roberts; Abbigail Scott; Skylar Solomon; Maxwell Stelmasiak; Jayla Weatherspoon Jacoby Baker; Makayla Best; Mason Bressler; Calvin Diamond; Nevaeh Ferrier; Jaden Gant; 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meet the Los Angeles Kings on Monday at 8:30 PM ET Finding a number on the cellphone of a West Manchester Township man who died of a heroin overdose in November arranged a drug deal and arrested the phone's owner later admitted to police he had sold heroin to Ryan Myers on the day Myers overdosed in West Manchester Township READ: York man charged in fentanyl-related death Cruz remained in York County Prison on a combined $750,000 bail for a host of charges including drug delivery resulting in death and possession with intent to deliver drugs when they were called to the 1600 block of Church Road after Myers suffered a cardiac arrest due to a heroin overdose police found an empty heroin package and a spoon in a bathroom Myers was pronounced dead by the York County Coroner's Office police learned that on the day of his overdose another person at home "heard loud bangs in the bathroom and then observed Myers on the floor," documents state READ: Infant died of starvation after parents' overdose deaths police found a conversation between him and another individual on the day of Myers' overdose about buying an amount of heroin along with help from the York County Drug Task Force texted the number Myers had been texting and set up a drug deal on Dec The person on the other end of the phone requested to meet at the same store Myers had reportedly bought heroin Cruz admitted to police he sold drugs that day that the number police called to set up the deal was his Contact reporter Ted Czech at 717-771-2033 Match Expires at Midnight GIVE NOW The health impacts to traditional communities in the Amazon are also impacting nature it’s become clear the virus impacts are not spread proportionately A report by the Osvaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) found that 34.1 percent of Brazil's Indigenous and traditional communities live in municipalities at high risk for the COVID-19 epidemic According to information provided by the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) there had been 6,482 infections and 337 deaths spread across at least 91 Indigenous communities in the nine states of Brazil’s Legal Amazon Among Quilombola communities—the Afro-Brazilian descendants of former runaway slaves—there have been 826 identified cases and 86 deaths since June 22 according to the National Coordination of Articulating Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ) These disparate impacts represent both a human rights tragedy and a serious threat to the environment Indigenous peoples play a strategic role in combating climate change and protecting biodiversity in the Amazon it is clear that Indigenous lands are the best preserved areas of the biome According to data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) the 23 percent of the Amazon territory formed by Indigenous lands has the lowest deforestation rate of any land tenure category in the region In addition to serious consequences for community health COVID-19 could have a major impact on the conservation and protection of Indigenous territories deforestation has increased again in the Amazon over 42,000 hectares were deforested within Indigenous lands Although this represents only 5 percent of the total recorded deforestation during this period it is a sign of increased pressure from illegal activities such as mining and logging their cultures and the biodiversity they protect In a moment of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic Indigenous populations are even more vulnerable in the face of these incursions since outsiders have historically been a major vector of disease transmission travel restrictions exacerbate impacts to food security and the economy of many communities And with decreased support for surveillance Indigenous lands and protected areas are at even greater risk than usual All this in turn can endanger the socio-biodiversity of their territories The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is working to support Indigenous communities in the Amazon in protecting forests and socio-biodiversity on their lands throughout the pandemic We are particularly focused on strengthening environmental management and territorial development as well as supporting local organizations This objective entails three main actions: We know that there is a clear link between environmental conservation and the well-being of local stewards A threat to their fundamental rights directly impacts not only the immediate surroundings but the interconnected systems that we all need to survive Especially at a time like this it is essential that all societies and governments prioritize the well-being and health of these communities—for their sake and that of the entire planet The man accused of fatally shooting a local high school teacher outside his North Park home last year allegedly asked during a firearms class how to kill people was back in court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing for his alleged role in the killing of Cathedral Catholic High School (CCHS) teacher Mario Fierro Alvarez was ordered to stand trial and will appear in court again later this month More on the North Park shooting of the local teacher Get top local San Diego stories delivered to you every morning with our News Headlines newsletter Two witnesses recounted encounters with the defendant an investigator for the San Diego District Attorney's Office testified that staff from the Poway Weapons & Gear Range reported the defendant asked disturbing questions during a firearms class Cruz testified Alvarez asked where the "best place to shoot someone to kill them" was "what about the back of the head?" An instructor at the range told the investigator those questions stood out to him since they teach participants how to defend themselves Alvarez took classes weeks before Fierro's slaying The defendant pleaded not guilty last year to first-degree murder charges in connection with Fierro's death The victim was found shot on the morning of Feb San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Officer Scott Lockwood said the shooting suspect fled the scene Emergency responders tried to revive the 37-year-old teacher According to Deputy District Attorney Ramona McCarthy Alvarez dressed in all black clothing the day of the shooting She added the defendant waited outside Fierro’s home for about an hour for the victim to go outside and then shot him multiple times before running away Attorneys for Alvarez asked the judge to drop a special circumstance attached to Alvarez's murder charge accusing him of lying in wait saying evidence went "beyond premeditation." Alvarez was arrested the night of the shooting in Serra Mesa after investigators reviewed footage from at least two home security cameras in the area Police believe the violence stemmed from an argument between the defendant and victim since Fierro was engaged to Alvarez’s ex-girlfriend The woman also testified in court on Wednesday and told the judge that Alvarez made her fear for her safety She testified he would not leave her alone after the two broke up and claimed the defendant tried to break into her home She added Alvarez even got a job at CCHS' cafeteria to be closer to the victim Once school administration realized who he was The witness concluded that her relationship with Fierro was “one of the most genuine loving relationships I’ve been in my entire life.” she claimed the defendant stalked her in person cyberstalked her and was emotionally abusive and controlling during their relationship Fierro’s killing devastated the CCHS community who fondly remembered the teacher as “ young He was a fantastic teacher and a great human being," said a letter sent to parents and staff the day he was killed Alvarez faces a first-degree murder charge in the case A court officer told NBC 7 an additional witness will testify Thursday morning Metrics details An Author Correction to this article was published on 11 March 2022 This article has been updated The spread of dengue and other arboviruses constitutes an expanding global health threat The extensive heterogeneity in population distribution and potential complexity of movement in megacities of low and middle-income countries challenges predictive modeling even as its importance to disease spread is clearer than ever Using surveillance data at fine resolution following the emergence of the DENV4 dengue serotype in Rio de Janeiro we document a pattern in the size of successive epidemics that is invariant to the scale of spatial aggregation This pattern emerges from the combined effect of herd immunity and seasonal transmission and is strongly driven by variation in population density at sub-kilometer scales It is apparent only when the landscape is stratified by population density and not by spatial proximity as has been common practice Models that exploit this emergent simplicity should afford improved predictions of the local size of successive epidemic waves It remains unclear at what scales aggregation of data is appropriate and how best to manage the trade-off between model fidelity and computational expense in the parameterization of movement C Examples of three different possible patterns for the relative size of the peaks and therefore for DENV4 incidence in three of the 10 administrative regions shown in the upper map in (B) The colors indicate the corresponding regions in this map A The temporal incidence of a unit is shaped by human density directly but also indirectly via the arrival time of the first imported infection (the y-axis is normalized by the maximum value of cases for better visualization) The temporal dynamics are simulated with a deterministic SIR model with a seasonal transmission rate the size of the second peak increases with the population density of the unit (top to bottom) The earlier the first infection reaches the unit the smaller the size of the second peak (left to right) denser units are infected earlier (data: black circles) The blue triangles are used as input to the model to specify arrival time and therefore initial conditions in a given unit (with an exponential decay curve capturing the observed trend) The earlier importation of infection in denser units implies two opposite effects of population density on relative peak size (demonstrated in A) C For arrival times similar to those observed in the data the model simulations (blue triangles) can capture the observed behavior (black circles) of the peak ratio with human density The results correspond to a partition of the city into 12 groups according to population density To verify that our hypothesized effects are robust we therefore consider a more realistic model that takes demographic stochasticity into account we introduce the empirical rate of infection importation to a local unit ${{\sigma }_{u}}^{{emp}}$ which allows us to sidestep the explicit coupling between the units the spark rate and its estimation do not explicitly consider the source units from which infections are imported (“Methods”) A stochastic SIR model under well-mixed conditions applies within each unit which allows for local extinction of infection and for the spark rate to re-initiate transmission The initial conditions are self-contained in the model through the arrival of the first infection to a given unit for each unit u the transmission rate is modeled as $\beta {S}_{u}{I}_{u}/{N}_{u}+{\sigma }_{u}$ where $\beta$ is the local transmission rate and ${\sigma }_{u}$ is the spark rate per unit To take into account that we are working from observed cases we consider a reporting rate $\rho \in (0,1]$ and compute the spark rate as ${\sigma }_{u}={{{{{{\mathrm{Poisson}}}}}}}({{\sigma }_{u}}^{{emp}}/\rho )$ A Mean observed arrival time as a function of human density The original units are binned into 100 groups and arrival times are averaged for the units belonging to the same group The arrival times computed from the data (black circles) are compared to those obtained in model simulations (with dots colored by reporting rate) B Peak ratio obtained in the simulations as a function of population density for the different reporting rates where the colors correspond to those in (A) The boxplots are computed from 20 stochastic realizations (in these the median with the 25th and 75th percentiles and the dotted lines indicate the extremes of the distribution) the empirical values of peak ratio are also shown (in black C Spark rate as a function of total incidence (CTot) The logarithm of the number of sparks (or number of imported infections) per month per unit exhibits a linear relationship with the logarithm of the total number of cases in the city The more populated units receive a higher number of sparks as expected in a pattern that is well approximated by a power law D The parameters of the power relationship between spark rate and total incidence vary as a function of population density The different slopes (m) and intercept (b) from a linear regression to the log–log plot are shown in (C) as a function of the logarithm of population density importation rate to a unit exhibits both a global and a local determinant namely the total number of cases in the city and the local population in a given unit These dependencies allow the specification of infection importation via a mean-field coupling and local conditions circumventing the need to explicitly describe spatial connectivity at fine scales These determinants of spark rate reinforce the important role of population density in the behavior of peak ratio They also provide a handle to potentially reduce the complexity of the infection importation process Our results demonstrate that human density is a dominant driver of dengue dynamics at fine spatial scales comparable in size to city block and census tract This effect scales up to explain the relative size of successive epidemic waves a major epidemiological feature reflecting the interplay of seasonality with the depletion of susceptible individuals and the build-up of herd immunity this fundamental aspect of the dynamics of an immunizing infection is affected by variation in population density at fine spatial scales this does not mean that spatial aggregation or coarse graining of the landscape is not plausible We find that the pattern of peak ratio with density is invariant to the number of spatial groupings over an order of magnitude as long as coarser spatial partitions follow aggregation according to density itself and not the traditional subdivision of administrative units based on typical contiguous space efforts to model dengue and possibly other infectious diseases in urban landscapes should consider the nature of aggregation space and not just its spatial resolution administrative regions may better reflect similar environmental conditions such as temperature and socio-economic status influencing transmission intensity according to standard geography the new partition we propose should by definition better capture human density and its effects on key aspects of dengue transmission such as infection spread and availability of susceptible individuals Consideration of these different organizations of space can help identify and disentangle the effect of disease drivers given that variation in incidence within the city occurs along both aggregation axes but for different sets of factors we have explicitly described this structure through its effects for dengue The dependence of this timing on human density was successfully captured here by a stochastic model in which there is no explicit description of the spatial coupling between local units the link between units is implicit in our model via “sparks” arriving from unspecified locations from a global pool of city-wide infections Up to 10% protection would still be consistent with our results and could account for cross-protection from another serotype from previous seasons The patterns we have uncovered are for a city with intermittent seasonal epidemics. They raise the question of whether similar patterns arise in more endemic but still seasonal dengue regions. Exploratory analyses of a dengue dataset from Delhi suggests similar trends in peak ratio with population density (Supplementary Fig. 15) high-resolution surveillance in such regions including serotype assignment of the reported cases would be valuable to examine the robustness of our findings across the geographical distribution of the disease and in the presence of co-circulating serotypes We have considered here frequency-dependent transmission because of its relevance to vector-transmitted diseases and many directly-transmitted ones Future work should examine whether similar results hold for density-dependent transmission our modeling of the spark process reveals that the effective result can be described in some systems in terms of two accessible quantities namely the total number of cases in the city and the local human density This finding suggests a novel formulation of metapopulation dynamics in urban environments that should be explored in future work where space is aggregated according to population density and the coupling occurs through a global incidence pool Whether the complexity of human movement and resulting connectivity patterns can be captured in such a practical way in spatially explicit models of dengue and perhaps other infections remains an open question This formulation combined with the sufficiently coarse partitions suggested by the scale-independent pattern we uncovered provides an alternative to the intractable high-dimensional systems needed to resolve population density heterogeneity when modeling cities and geographical regions We created a grid whose units measure 250 m by 250 m based on the census tract layer for the city of Rio de Janeiro from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística [Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics] (IBGE) website https://www.ibge.gov.br/geociencias/organizacao-do-territorio/malhas-territoriais Dengue is a disease of compulsory notification in Brazil and cases are notified at the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação [Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration] (SINAN) Dengue cases notified in Rio de Janeiro between January 2010 and March 2015 were geocoded according to address of residency and then counted for each grid unit by the Secretariat of Health of the city We obtained the monthly dengue cases data aggregated at the grid level We chose the WorldPop dataset because: (i) the estimates are also calculated based on census data and are available for 2010 we binned them into G groups and aggregated their times series of reported cases The groups were generated according to two aspects: (1) the geographical location of the units as determined by the administrative divisions of the city (10 areas and 160 neighborhoods); and (2) the population of the units based on quantiles in order to obtain equal size groups We considered specifically four different partition levels respectively (from a total number of 11,247 units for the whole city) Groups of unequal size can introduce different statistical effects (it is not the same to calculate a mean value using 1000 or 10 elements) To compare quantities across groups it is therefore prudent to define groups with the same number of elements this consideration becomes important for a large number of groups Since the population density distribution (number of individuals per unit) is not uniform groups defined with “equidistant” boundaries would exhibit very different numbers of elements we define its time series ${{{{{{\bf{v}}}}}}}_{{{{{{\bf{u}}}}}}}=\{{c}_{u}({t}_{1}),{c}_{u}({t}_{2}),...,{c}_{u}({t}_{f})\}$ where ${c}_{u}({t}_{i})$ is the number of reported cases of dengue at time ${t}_{i}$ (i = 1 …f) (and the bold symbol is used to indicate a vector) for each ${{{{{{\bf{V}}}}}}}_{{{{{{\bf{g}}}}}}}$ we computed the ratio between the sizes of the second and first DENV4 peaks (Supplementary Fig. 2) the deterministic SIR model is based on the following traditional differential equations: Parameter $\mu$ is the mortality rate (equal to the birth rate) The seasonal transmission rate is specified as $\beta (t)={\beta }_{0}(1+\delta {{\sin }}\,(\omega t+\phi ))$ The units are considered independent of each other and the initial conditions establish that the whole population of each unit is susceptible to the virus (${S}_{u}(t=0)={N}_{u}$ and ${I}_{u}\left(t=0\right)={R}_{u}\left(t=0\right)=0\forall u$) Transmission begins with one infected individual at a time ${t}_{0u}\ge t=0$ where ${t}_{0u}$ is obtained from the data Since the goal of this model is to examine the representative dynamics of different population densities we binned the units according to their population into 12 groups and computed the mean value of their number of inhabitants ${N}_{g}=\langle {N}_{u\in g}\rangle$ and of their arrival times of the infection ${t}_{0g}\sim \langle {t}_{0u\in g}\rangle$ (where g = 1 We then simulated the system considering the 12 sets $\{{N}_{g},{t}_{0g}\}$ as given Since units will suffer local extinction of transmission a major component of a stochastic implementation is the description of the local reintroduction of the virus namely the arrival of a ‘spark’ or imported infection Because space is described by a highly-resolved lattice we considered that well-mixed transmission applies within each unit in lieu of explicit spatial coupling between units we postulated the importation of infection through the specification of a spark rate For this purpose, we constructed a binary representation of the time series of cases per month by defining the spatial units either as positive or negative according to whether they reported cases or not (Supplementary Fig. 3) to derive a spark rate we explored the dynamics of the number of positive units as follows The number of positive units at time ${t+dt}$ is equal to the number of positive units at time t plus the number of units that have been infected ${{U}_{{{{{{{\mathrm{new}}}}}}}}}^{{{\mbox{+}}}}(t,t+{dt})$ between t and t + dt minus the number of units that were infected at t but are no longer infected at t + dt (i.e. the number of ‘extinctions’ between t and t + dt ${{U}_{{{{{{{\mathrm{extinct}}}}}}}}}^{{{\mbox{+}}}}(t,t+{dt})$) negative units) require the arrival of a spark to become positive the following equation specifies the mean of ${{U}_{{{{{{{\mathrm{new}}}}}}}}}^{{{\mbox{+}}}}(t,t+{dt})$ under the assumption that a small unit is unlikely to receive more than a single spark in a period of time dt where ${N}_{{{{{{{\mathrm{sparks}}}}}}}}(t,t+{dt})$ is the number of sparks produced between t and t + dt ${U}^{{{{-}}}}(t)$ is the number of negative units at a time t and $U$ is the total number of units in the city ($U={U}^{{{\mbox{+}}}}+{U}^{{{{-}}}}$) By introducing Eq. (4) into Eq. (3) we obtain From Eq. (5) we can now compute the spark rate per unit ${{\sigma }_{u}}^{{emp}}(t,t+{dt})$ from the high-resolution incidence data as In order to address the effects of human density on the spark rate, we binned the spatial units according to their population into G groups. To avoid statistical effects due to group size, we considered population quantiles. Then, by applying Eq. (6) to each of these groups we obtained an empirical spark rate per unit that depends on human density where ${N}_{g}={{\langle }}{N}_{u\in g}{{\rangle }}$ with g = 1 The associated differential equations of the stochastic model are those shown on Eq. (2) but the transmission component has now an additional term ${\sigma }_{u}$ to describe the importation of infections Since the inferred spark rate from the data (Eq. 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Cruz, 23, is facing a possible death sentence for murdering 17 at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb Bailiffs moved in quickly to remove the man who shook his head vigorously and muttered “that's horrible” repeatedly as he walked past reporters seated toward the back of the courtroom several other jurors became “excited” and were saying something that could not be heard The first man then started looking back over his shoulder toward Cruz The half-dozen armed deputies who always stand just behind Cruz then grabbed and surrounded him fearing that the first juror was about to run toward them and would be joined by others “The sheriff’s office observed all of that and determined they needed to protect Mr “One instigates and then there are many followers,” explained Broward Sheriff's Capt told Scherer she understands that the deputies' first priority is to protect Cruz and everyone in the courtroom but didn't realize that would require him being physically moved But she wondered if the deputies could simply stand between Cruz and the threat if something similar happens again eight-alternate jury is being selected in a two-month three-step process to decide whether he receives a death sentence or life in prison without parole More than 1,800 jurors have come through the courtroom mostly without incident since the process began April 4 One panel of 60 had to be dismissed on April 12 after eight became obviously emotional upon seeing Cruz About a dozen others have been quietly removed from various panels because they started crying The panels are not told they are being brought up as potential Cruz jurors although it is widely known throughout South Florida that the process has started the potential jurors are only being asked if they could serve from June through September Those who can will be brought back next month for further questioning Tuesday had been a boring, routine day. It was a marked difference from Monday when Scherer announced she was dismissing 250 potential jurors who had passed initial screening because of a possible error she made and starting the selection process over Two panels of 70 had been brought through with no significant incidents A few potential jurors had been quietly taken out for crying But that changed as the first panel after lunch was brought in With most eyes focused on the jurors filing in Cruz's attorneys got the attention of the bailiffs starting the sequence that led to Cruz being pulled aside for protection the man told deputies that he wasn't trying to cause problems but was emotional and wanted to curse out Cruz according to a reporter who was in the hallway Scherer and the attorneys quickly conferred and the judge then dismissed the entire panel who she said became “belligerent” as they waited for the elevator to take them back to the lobby and "got mouthy" toward deputies The juror who started it all told the deputies that they — or perhaps the system — had traumatized the potential jurors Scherer said deputies followed the group out of the courthouse to make sure they didn't say anything to prospective jurors waiting to be brought to her courtroom rewritten or redistributed without permission Email Newsletters KSAT RSS Feeds Contests and Rules Contact Us KSAT Internships Careers at KSAT Closed Captioning / Audio Description Public File Current EEO Report Terms of Use Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Info FCC Applications Copyright © 2025 KSAT.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group, a division of Graham Holdings. The element requested is either not valid or does not exist. with on the left professor João Luís Garcia - Photo: UELBrazilian researchers have made significant progress in developing a vaccine against swine toxoplasmosis The team claims it is the first in the world The medicine uses recombinant proteins, which is a method said to be effective and low risk. According to professor João Luís Garcia of the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine at the State University of Londrina the development is the result of a long research process and gradual advances in knowledge around the globe the scientists are testing the DNA vaccine against swine toxoplasmosis in mice and the next phase will be the final one: testing in pigs Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii and affects several animal species which can serve as vectors and transmit to humans both for animals and for the sick human being toxoplasmosis can leave a series of sequelae hydrocephalus and mental deficiency,” he explains gondii was isolated for the first time in 1908 practically at the same time by French researchers in Tunisia and Brazilian researchers in São Paulo this was still the epidemiological picture of the disease about 4 out of 10 pigs in Brazil were contaminated with toxoplasmosis oocysts (eggs) and there was no vaccine investment was made in education and other forms of prevention tips on how to cook meat before eating it were disseminated and are still valid today only 4 out of 100 pigs carry some form of contamination considering that a single individual can carry millions of oocysts there is still sufficient reason to be alert pork is the most consumed meat in the world and data from the Osvaldo Cruz Foundation state that about a third of the world’s human population is affected by the disease was that they used live micro-organisms capable of infecting In 1999, the first of many publications in the international journal Veterinary Parasitology initiated a series of advances in the researcher’s investigation a vaccine against ovine and caprine toxoplasmosis the United Kingdom stimulated new studies for a vaccine that was not administered through the nose a new research was published on a vaccine for rectal application in cats also using a recombinant protein technology There have also been studies with viral vaccines It is unclear when the vaccine will be available for commercial use the Story of the Goal Scorer Who Conquered the Copa LibertadoresAt 23 years old Júnior Santos heard a prophecy at church that would change his life: one day he would travel the world playing football his life was very different: he worked as a bricklayer and played football in lower leagues simply for the joy of it and But that vision motivated him to make a radical change leaving his manual labor job behind to pursue his dream Destiny led him to a fourth-tier Brazilian team thousands of miles away from his home in São João de Meriti but his faith and determination kept him moving forward but each step brought him closer to his dream He played for several smaller clubs like Ituano and Ponte Preta before reaching the First Division with Fortaleza in 2019 a huge achievement for a player who had barely had a chance in the professional game playing for teams like Kashiwa Reysol and Sanfrecce Hiroshima seeking something bigger: a dream that seemed distant but was now within reach his life took an even more remarkable turn Despite suffering a severe tibia fracture in July Júnior Santos managed to return just in time for the Copa Libertadores final Botafogo won their first-ever continental title and Júnior’s goal in the 3-1 final against Paraguayan club Olimpia sealed the glory for his team crowned him the tournament’s top scorer an impressive feat for a player who had already netted eight goals in the qualifiers and group stage by May his rise from the lower divisions of Brazilian football a serious injury that kept him off the pitch for months And despite doubts about his place in the team the forward never stopped fighting for his chance Even though he lost his starting spot in Botafogo due to the return of teammates Luiz Henrique his perseverance allowed him to shine when it mattered most is a reminder that football isn’t just about talent and stats; it’s about struggle the man who once played for food is a South American champion having conquered the Copa Libertadores with a goal that will go down in Botafogo’s history What would that 23-year-old who heard his destiny in church say He always believed that football had something big in store for him located at 702 Ninth Avenue and representing artists living with mental illness announces the upcoming group show The Art of Fashion "Art and fashion have a symbiotic relationship,” said Battista “I love that the artists have considered fashion in the broadest sense from personal style and identity politics to street art and celebrity culture Abstract patterns that derive from textiles as well as works derived from textiles themselves The work of mainstream artists sits effortlessly with that of the Fountain House Gallery artists and creates a dynamic and fun dialogue across generations and styles." Traditional motifs of high fashion play a significant role in the exhibition and George Penon Cassallo’s paintings are influenced by fashion trends as seen in glossy magazine spreads or advertisements Eva O’Leary’s and Maura Terese’s photographs recall the crisp lines of fashion photography Jasmine Soto’s drawings recall fashion line spread sheets while Joyce Siegel’s take these into the realm of semaphores that may be read as a cryptic language of dress shapes Christopher Polgar’s drawings may be compared to quickly drawn fashion illustrations and invoke the nostalgia of viewing fashion shows pre-camera phones Street style is represented by Gavin Dubblex Alleyne whose MODA painting recalls the original style of subway graffiti Elizabeth Bick’s photographs of Bushwick women and Kathy Pieper’s paintings of men can be read as homage to New York’s dynamic street style Celebrity culture is another preoccupation of artists in the show: Gary Peabody includes a Goth version of Adele; Martin Cohen pictures Cindy Crawford on a groceries run; Glenn Goldstein presents a meticulous drawing of Bianca Jagger; and A Lutz shows a painting with collaged objects of Bianca Del Rio Fashion is not confined to humans; pet style is another lighthearted element in the show Mercedes Kelly’s Mother Cat in Living Room continues her abiding motif of animal paintings and features an anthropomorphic cat depicted in a bright palette of repeated patterns Bridget Pierpont’s RUPAC depicts her chihuahua Rue in the guise of departed rapper Tupac And Susan Spangenberg’s painting reminds us with its graphic text that dogs are not just fashion accessories Several of the artists took the theme of fashion into a more abstract notion Berman created paintings whose abstract surfaces recall the warp and weft of fabric and Grace Hale produced hand printed fabrics that hang in the gallery has created her most ambitious work to date a wall-sized work that tells her history through a collage of fabrics Ella Veres has produced an installation with a group of fabric necklaces as well as shoes that serve as flowerpots Katie Holten’s pink pussy hat and George Williams’ painting of a woman in hijab serve as reminders of recent political upheaval reminding us that fashion is inextricably linked to gender videos by Lisa Kirk and Cheryl Donegan are included Kirk’s Revolution is a perfume ad aimed at revolutionaries for a scent that the artist devised with a professional perfumer Donegan’s fashion shows as performance art are seen on video alongside two of the real creations on mannequins Donegan has also styled the curator and Fountain House Gallery staff in her original work The Art of Fashion showcases more than 70 works Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation LITTLE ROCK — A 19-year-old van driver was stopped along Interstate 540 by a Benton County sheriff's deputy and was found with 12 illegal aliens in the back of.. 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This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2025 audio and/or video material shall not be published rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use The AP will not be held liable for any delays errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing Two men were arrested on felony charges of burglary and grand theft after a deputy discovered them transporting a trailer loaded with numerous large boxes out of Ave Maria at 2:30 a.m according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office report were charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure and grand theft between $5,000 and $10,000 for the theft of kitchen cabinets valued at $7,000 The report says the deputy stopped the pickup because the trailer attached to the back did not have a license plate as well as there have been recent burglaries in the area and the time of the day was odd to be transporting the load of cabinets A detective interrogated the two and learned that Cruz was attempting to get a contract tile job at the Ave Maria house under construction and that he returned to the job site with Gutierrez and knew about the cabinets inside They entered the home without permission and loaded the cabinets onto the trailer The detective contacted a superintendent with the home's builder who confirmed that the cabinets had just arrived Friday and belonged to them More: Bonita Springs woman accused of grand theft at Cape Coral department store More: Deputies: Naples man charged with assaulting guard, bringing gun to hospital More: CCSO: Man shot in stomach following fight at East Naples nightclub More: CCSO: Early morning high-speed chase leads to 3 arrests FIBA announced the 2013 Class of Inductees of the FIBA Hall of Fame Over the next three weeks (weekdays from 28 May to 12 June) MIES (FIBA Hall of Fame) - On Monday 27 May, FIBA announced the 2013 Class of Inductees of the FIBA Hall of Fame Today we look at Brazil's Maria Paula Gonçalves Da Silva An iconic figure in Brazilian basketball, Maria Paula Goncalves Da Silva is entering the FIBA Hall of Fame. A protagonist for the national side throughout her career the 1.74m 'Magic Paula' amazed with her dribbling who came into the world on the 11th of March truly was a wizard when the ball was in her hands But the Brazilians had the dynamic trio of Hortencia Marcari, Janeth Arcain and Magic Paula in their squad The players on both teams seemed to run up and down the court at a 100mph that day and mesmerized fans with a scoring explosion the Brazilians ultimately won, 110-107 Magic Paula converted 15 of 18 opportunities at the free-throw line and drilled a couple of three-balls en route to 29 points Brazil then capped the most famous summer in their basketball history with a 96-87 triumph over China in the Gold Medal Game Asked to look back at her time as a player after being told she was to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame she answered: "Surely the world title in Australia was the most important of my career and a generation.” Brazil and Magic Paula had another success The team reached the Final of the Atlanta Games Brazil were able to celebrate a first-ever medal in the Olympic women’s tournament There were other games of huge significance for Magic Paula like the Gold Medal Game win in Havana against Cuba in the 1991 Pan American Games Cuba President Fidel Castro was the most famous spectator at that game Magic Paula is elated to be a part of the 2013 Class for the FIBA Hall of Fame "It is the recognition of a successful track record in basketball "I want to share this award with my teammates my family and all the people who somehow helped and supported me "It is gratifying to be remembered almost 14 years after leaving the courts." Guillermo Stábile’s awesome Argentina team crowned themselves the kings of South America in style was won with a 3-0 drubbing of Brazil on 3 April of that year the fifth match of a round-robin tournament that served as a final for the two leading teams The result held little disgrace for the vanquished Brazilians. Though they would go on to lift the World Cup in emphatic fashion just 12 months later, boosted by the talents of Garrincha and a 17-year-old Pelé – who had been absent the previous year in Lima Peru – there was nothing the Seleção could do against one of the most formidable sides Argentina have ever sent out to a football pitch José Dellachea and Néstor Rossi stopped anything in their way funnelling the ball up to a forward line that aficionados know simply by its members’ surnames: from right to left The three central components of that wonderful quintet Humberto Maschio and Antonio Angelillo were the ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ the street urchins from Buenos Aires’ sprawling were starring at Italy’s most renowned clubs the elder statesman of that youthful attack at 26 was a legend at Independiente and later featured for Brazil’s Palmeiras before returning to his boyhood idols in Avellaneda and enjoying a sedate retirement in Santiago But one of those players more than any other typified the makeshift brilliance and eccentricity of those golden years of Argentine football: Oreste Omar Corbatta alcoholic right winger who is considered one of the greatest in history on the same level as that other troubled genius Born in the agricultural town of Daireaux in March 1936 Corbatta was one of eight children raised by Italian immigrant Gerónimo and his wife When Osmar was just five his father passed away and Isabel moved the entire clan to La Plata in order to escape the grinding poverty of the countryside their tiny home in the capital of Buenos Aires did not even have a door and when the young Corbatta was not selling fruit in the street or collecting old bottles to contribute to the family’s meagre finances he could be found playing football barefoot on the dirt roads surrounding his house This left little time for an education: he never progressed past the second grade and throughout his life was unable to read and write he would later carry a newspaper under his arm to hide his secret from journalists and all but his closest friends; those in on his Achilles heel would read back favourable match reports where Corbatta was mentioned and formed part of their youth ranks until he was let go in mysterious circumstances – he alleged that a serious ankle injury ended his time there who in 2016 released a biography of the star heard from former team-mates that he was forced to go over an alleged boot robbery Corbatta continued to hone his trade in regional football until He arrived at the Avellaneda team clad in an old checkered shirt as he prepared to welcome the winger and settle him into lodgings Those tattered clothes were his only belongings in the world What little video survives of El Loco depicts a tiny wisp of a player dwarfed by the burly defenders tasked with blocking his path At just five foot four inches and bearing an apparently painfully undernourished frame Corbatta did not look the part as a professional footballer that was certainly the prevailing sentiment Look at who we have just given the shirt to,” a fan was overheard saying on that inauspicious debut dishevelled wretch brought in from the countryside; the anti-athlete” Luckily for the 19-year-old – and for Racing for that matter – those first impressions proved to be incorrect Corbatta slotted almost instantly into the Academia first team where his incredible dribbling skills and brutal shot made him a favourite at the club and delivered two Primera División titles during his seven years in the first team With so little surviving in terms of concrete evidence of his playing career outside of grainy newsreel and the living testaments provided by Racing Magazine and the eternal Gráfico what endures to the present day is the Corbatta legend I cannot even see,” the bleary-eyed winger told his colleague shortly before kicking off a Primera División match against Estudiantes de la Plata Ninety tough minutes of football lay ahead for Racing Club even with one of the greatest forward lines in their history But their right winger seemed to have more immediate problems He had been out all night drinking and sneaked into Racing’s Cilindro stadium still in an advanced state of inebriation Tita Mattiussi had grown up inside the club and worked there her entire life as kit lady cleaner and mentor to the young stars living in the pension maintained for prospects and she had an unorthodox manner of bringing her wayward charge back to his senses the resourceful matriarch obliged with a bucket of cold water over Orestes’ head This sharp shock managed to alleviate the worst of his drunkenness but Corbatta must have still appeared in no fit state to participate in that day’s clash Coach José Della Torre briefed his charges on the game ahead as he continued inebriated despite Tita’s best efforts to flush the alcohol out of his system This was 1959; even allowing for his dalliances the swaying genius would occupy his habitual role on the right flank Despite the obvious handicap of not seeing the ball the star went on to score two goals to sink the La Plata club and inspire the club to a rousing 6-1 victory Corbatta languished along the right touchline barely involved in play His behaviour caught the attention of a nearby photographer play a bit and I’ll take your photo.” Roused from his accidie dribbled effortlessly past three defenders and scored “I have only just put the film in.” Corbatta cursed the photographer and refused to take any further part in the game from his refuge on the flank A kinder portrayal of the young, scatter-brained star is provided by Mundo Deportivo. The magazine’s October 1956 edition featured the smiling, fresh-faced 20-year-old, his hair slicked back into a parting and a gold medallion hanging from his neck. An impressive performance against Boca Juniors had helped Racing take a 1-0 victory despite a Cilindro pitch clogged with mud which hardly suited the youngster’s dribbling style in a section of the magazine dedicated to reporting football’s curiosities – surely a column in which Corbatta soon became accustomed to seeing his name – which yields a gem “Needed up until the last minute to talk with the radio and sent off with an ovation from the Racing press Corbata (sic) did not notice that he had mistakenly gone down to the Boca dressing room,” the diarist notes “The laughter which this inspired was tiny next to the cackles released by the discomfort with which Corbata went back on himself to reach the home tunnel.” Be it for his inability to read the dressing room signs the youngster had walked straight into enemy territory without realising That was the same year Corbatta received a brutal introduction to the world of international football was selected for the Argentine national team to participate in a friendly against Río de la Plata arch-rivals Uruguay It should go without saying that the match was a friendly in name only; neither side would pass up the chance to humiliate their counterparts from the other side of the estuary and the promise of making himself a favourite back in Buenos Aires seems to have influenced Corbatta’s actions that day as he pulled off a wonderful but provocative piece of individual skill The winger was clearly revelling in torturing the Uruguayans Corbatta received the ball and proceeded to loop the ball over Sasia’s head with a trademark sombrero the youngster waited for Sasia to find his bearings and come back at him and neatly slotted the ball through his legs he awaited Sasia’s approach once more – and knocked it back through the defender’s legs performing the cheekiest of nutmegs with his back turned to the fuming rival A team-mate soon obliged El Duro; the next action saw Corbatta sent sprawling on the turf of the legendary Estadio Centenario where the first World Cup winners in 1930 were being embarrassed by this quick-footed upstart Sasia walked over to his prostrate torturer-in-chief ostensibly to see how he was after that ferocious tackle But the defender was not going to pass up his chance now he had finally caught up with his man; Corbatta was greeted not with an outstretched hand to help him back on his feet but a tremendous haymaker which knocked out two of his front teeth the star would carry around that reminder of what happened when his talents ran out of control proving that his innocence off the pitch would not excuse any excesses on it Corbatta continued to torment defenders the length and breadth of South America for the entirety of his professional career virtuoso talent found its zenith when coupled with the rest of the ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’ in Lima The winger scored two of the 25 goals Guillermo Stábile’s Albiceleste stars pilfered in just six games winning the first five to build up an unassailable advantage before losing a dead rubber to the hosts in what appears a nod to continental diplomacy as well as certain excesses in celebrating the title but they were supplied by the prodigious right foot of his Racing team-mate who led the tournament in a merry dance “Oreste and Enrique Omar Sívori were the great forwards of the age and the team that won in Lima over March and April earned a place in history,” he told Télam years later El Loco scored a goal that was so memorable it made the pages of Life as a second-by-second montage describes it thus: “The play was in the Argentine half when a clearance put the ball at the feet of Corbatta whom he left trailing in a rapid sprint to the opposition goal but his inspiration led him to conceive something even more spectacular and picturesque: he wait for Salazar to arrive waited for the goalkeeper to try and come out and with a ‘slap’ buried the ball.” Despite still possessing those dizzying skills that so enraptured the editors of Life Corbatta was already leading an Argentina in chronic decline Angelillo and Sívori followed that match from across the Atlantic in Italy where they had been lured by Serie A’s promise of riches following the extravaganza they protagonised in Lima and where each went on to enjoy brilliant careers fled his home nation to avoid mandatory national service and endured 20 years of exile before finally being allowed to return Corbatta and Cruz were joined by Ángel Labruna for the 1958 World Cup called up in desperation well past his peak La Albiceleste were dumped out in the first round The following year, on home soil they managed to retain their South American title, but they laboured to victory with a draw over Brazil in the final game, and it was the effervescent Pelé rather than Corbatta who took all the plaudits The authorities turned to pragmatism over fantasy as the means of restoring the reputation shattered in Sweden and while Corbatta did participate in the qualifiers for Chile 1962 he was left at home for the tournament itself and from that point onwards El Loco entered in a steady downward decline Wall points out that wingers are the prizefighters of football they must rely on their own wits to outfox their adversaries and more than any other position rely on a dose of madness in their trade Garrincha died penniless and alone at the age of 49, consumed by his demons and by the drink. A similar fate befell George Best while the hero of Argentina’s 1978 World Cup victory battled for years with alcoholism and lived on the streets and in shanty towns before finally breaking his addiction a contemporary of Corbatta’s in the 1950s and also illiterate was crushed by the military dictatorship that ousted Juan Domingo Perón for his political views and died outside Independiente’s stadium at just 38 after being hit by a bus was left bankrupt by a string of failed marriages which his alcoholism and chronic unreliability surely helped to destroy one time and another he moved to Boca Juniors for the then-astronomic fee of 12 million pesos (US$85,000) But he played just 18 times for the Xeneize in two years scoring seven goals before moving to Colombia with Independiente Medellín That adventure ended in familiar fashion: brief moments of magic which have preserved his folk-hero status with Medellín supporters up to the present day missed training sessions and disputes with coaches and directors until finally in 1970 he returned to Argentina Corbatta wiled out the remainder of his career at a succession of lower league and amateur clubs ending in the wilds of Patagonia where he literally played for his next meal Racing took pity on their former star and offered him a tiny room under the away stand of El Cilindro only venturing out of his sanctuary to frequent the bars immediately adjacent to the stadium “Death has crossed the line,” Página 12 wrote in its obituary while La Nación mourned the “architect of a football that moved you” The tiny alley that runs parallel to the away end in El Cilindro was later renamed Pasaje Corbatta in his memory; the only recognisable landmark is a restaurant run by octogenarian proprietors Susi and Lalo where in this writer’s opinion they prepare the most delicious milanesa sandwiches in Buenos Aires Novelist Federico Levin wrote of that strangest of football breeds the winger: “They share aesthetically the clumsy beauty of their movements Ethically they assent to dismantle the logic of indulgence to experience it as a necessity: one dribble or trick too many is ‘too many’ precisely because it exceeds the plain economic calculation in the quest for success.” sought to play football as he did on the bumpy wastelands of La Plata where life was simple and the only imperative was to streak past one’s marker His reign at the pinnacle of football was all-too brief curtailed by off-field issues as much as the game’s own loss of innocence as the glorious 1950s came to a close But he remains an all-time idol of the Argentine game a reminder that even the scrawny waif that turns up to training with just the clothes on his back can go on to conquer the world By Daniel Edwards @DanEdwardsGoal Monster has finally made its way to Netflix The film — which is based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers — tells the story of 17-year-old student Steve Harmon who is accused of being involved in a convenience store robbery-turned-murder the gripping film follows his life before and during the trial Nas as Raymond "Sunset" Green — shall we go on Keep reading to see who else is in Monster and make sure to check it out on Netflix ASAP Getty | Jim SpellmanKelvin Harrison Jr a 17-year-old student who has dreams of becoming a filmmaker his dream is cut short when he's falsely accused of being involved in a robbery-turned-murder You may know the actor from his previous roles in The Trial of the Chicago 7 Getty | Jeff Spicer/BFCA$AP Rocky as William KingThe rapper – who is currently dating Rihanna — portrays a character named William King a neighbourhood kid who is charged for robbery and murder alongside Steve Rocky has only had two other roles where he didn't play himself; he was Dom in 2015's Dope and voiced Bodega Cat 2 in the Animals Getty | Kelly SullivanNas as Raymond "Sunset" GreenAppearing as Raymond "Sunset" Green the rapper plays an inmate who befriends Steve while he's in jail Nas has previously made appearances in films like Belly Getty | Tibrina HobsonJohn David Washington as Richard "Bobo" EvansWashington (yes, Denzel Washington's son) plays Richard "Bobo" Evans who is also accused of being involved in the robbery-turned murder Washington starred alongside Zendaya in Netflix's Malcolm & Marie Getty | Matt WinkelmeyerJharrel Jerome as Osvaldo CruzJerome portrays a teen named Osvaldo Cruz The actor has made a name for himself with roles in Concrete Cowboy Ehle takes on the role of Harmon's attorney She's previously appeared as Carla Wilks in the Fifty Shades franchise and has also had roles in Zero Dark Thirty Getty | Roy RochlinLovie Simone as Renee PickfordSimone plays Steve's love interest but she's since appeared in The Craft: Legacy Getty | Frazer HarrisonJonny Coyne as Detective KarylCoyne plays Detective Karyl who is one of the detectives investigating Steve's case You likely remember him from his roles in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Getty | Leon BennettTim Blake Nelson as Leroy SawickiNelson takes on the role of Steve's supportive high school teacher He's been in a variety of films throughout the years including The Incredible Hulk and O Brother Getty | Paul ArchuletaPaul Ben-Victor as Anthony PetrocelliBen-Victor plays the prosecutor in Steve's case as Anthony Petrocelli he's been in everything from Daredevil to Don Jon to The Irishman An estimated 28.000 natives live on the Janomami Reservation a doctor from the Osvaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) Despite spending only a few days as the Pan American Health Organization's Special Envoy on the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve in the Amazon he saw enough suffering to recently make national and international news "What we have seen is a very difficult health situation frequent cases of malaria and diarrheal diseases there are not enough teams and health structures," Sikueira told the BBC "To witness this level of suffering live is very harrowing." declared a state of public health emergency in the territory after it emerged that hundreds of Yanomami children had died of malnutrition in the previous four years The deaths are linked to water pollution caused by mining and logging in the densely forested area President Lula personally visited the area on January 21 and called the situation "inhumane," before accusing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro of genocide against the rainforest tribe what I saw in Roraima was genocide: a premeditated crime against the Yanomami people committed by a government insensitive to human suffering," he said "I came here to say that we will treat the indigenous people as human beings." On the channel of the messaging app Telegram Bolsonaro called Lula's speech a "farce" and said that "from 2020 to 2022 twenty health initiatives have drawn special attention to indigenous territories." An estimated 28.000 native people live on the Janomami reservation engage in small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture Bolsonaro frequently criticized the size of indigenous reserves and promised to open some of them to agriculture and mining His government has weakened environmental protections and critics say his rhetoric has encouraged illegal activity in the area It is estimated that around 20.000 illegal miners operate in the Yanomami people's reserve today miners opened fire on members of the Yanomami with automatic weapons Lula's new government claims that more than 2019 indigenous children have died from treatable diseases since 500 "This unprecedented and catastrophic health crisis that has befallen the Yanomami people in northern Brazil is a genocide that has been carried out for years," said Sara Schenker an indigenous expert at the human rights NGO Survival International "Former President Bolsonaro deliberately opened the gates of this territory and encouraged thousands of gold hunters to flock inside "He disbanded the Indigenous Health Service and ignored desperate calls for action from Indigenous organisations Survival and many others as the scale of the crisis became apparent." According to the non-governmental organization Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) one of the main organizations working with the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil the Yanomami indigenous reserve is inhabited by eight peoples and consists of an area of 9,6 million hectares located between the states of Amazonas and Roraima near the border of Brazil and Venezuela was ratified and recognized by the Brazilian government in 1992 through a decree signed by the then president Fernando Color The ISA highlights four "potential risks and existing problems" on Yanomami indigenous land: illegal miners gold miners have become one of the main concerns for both area residents and experts published in April last year with technical support from the ISA documented the illegal mining of gold and other minerals in the region the experts pointed out that the destruction of the forest by mining activities has "drastically increased" since 2016 mining has grown by no less than 3.350 percent," the text read The report also points out that the expansion of mining in the indigenous reserve is associated with a "significant decrease" in the quality of life of the region's residents accompanied by worsening indicators of violence the state where part of the Janomami reserve is located had one of the highest rates of violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil according to the latest edition of the Atlas of Violence published by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) in 2021 Illegal mining is associated with a higher incidence of infectious diseases in indigenous communities Siqueira explains that miners circulate through many areas and often use contraband drugs that minimize malaria symptoms but do not eliminate the parasite from their bodies "They end up being a source of pathogen spread because they carry the disease in areas where the situation was previously under control," he says Mineral extraction in the area depends on the use of mercury a toxic compound that contaminates water and food sources Exposure to this substance has been linked to a number of health problems Indigenous rights groups report that the situation has also worsened due to "a general state of uncertainty imposed by the increased circulation of armed prospectors in various areas of the territory," which it says has hampered the delivery of health services to the indigenous population "There have been complaints that miners have appropriated medicines reserved for indigenous peoples," adds Dr A medical expert explains that if malaria is diagnosed and treated within 48 hours of the first appearance of symptoms transmission to other people can be reduced "But illegal mining demobilizes teams of health professionals who can no longer care for and treat infected patients." This combination of factors helps to explain the picture shared in the world in the last days adults and elderly people in critical health President Lula has vowed to crack down on illegal mining in the reserve and a Health Ministry medical task force was sent to the region on January 23 to set up a field hospital in Boa Vista At least 16 members of the Yanomami people were flown out of the reserve by helicopter on the same day Health authorities also announced that a team of eight individuals would be transferred to the Surukuku region "This is a public health crisis and we will solve it," said Minister of Health Nisia Trinidade on January 21 during a visit to the reserve "But society needs to know what's going on here." Brazilian authorities have also begun distributing food aid Justice Minister Flavio Dino announced an investigation into possible crimes committed against the Janomami people "There are serious indications of genocide which will be investigated by the federal police," Dino said Sequeira warns that the problems faced by the Yanomami people can be found in other indigenous territories across the Amazon "We know there are problems in Rio Negro and Alto Solimoes I was there last year and saw a similar situation of absence of help and care," he says "This is something that needs to be addressed urgently Follow us on Facebook,Twitter i Viber Home » Puerto Rico A major new hotel project will soon launch in the Condado district of Puerto Rico’s capital The project began in earnest with the recent demolition of buildings 880 and 884 on Ashford Avenue It will include approximately $30 million in investment in various stages of construction with the end result being a 164-room hotel “We are extremely excited about this project and how it will contribute to the tourist area in Condado,” said Osvaldo Rivera Cruz “We are particularly pleased that this collaboration has been achieved through the involvement of a Puerto Rican company that will create jobs in the short-term as well as the long-term and increase the inventory of hotel rooms on the island expanding the offerings with innovative entertainment areas and restaurants The project will create nearly 375 jobs during construction and 150 during operation according to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company “The rebirth of Condado is real,” said Puerto Rico’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade “There have been a number of private investments in tourism projects as part of this redevelopment the expansion of the Marriott Hotel and the reopening of Hotel Ambassador These additions symbolize the growth in several fronts and the contribution to the economic transformation of Puerto Rico.” It’s the biggest thing in travel right now But they don’t just want the unlimited food and beverage The term “green” has never been more important but it’s also never been a broader term What once merely meant a degree of environmental focus has now expanded to encompass everything from renewable energy to sustainability to community tourism Belize has come out on top of the Caribbean as the region’s happiest country Caribbean Journal has learned. 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