Health

A mural showing Bolsonaro holding a sign that says: 'It's just a minor cold' | Cris Faga/NurPhoto/PA Images

Brazil’s President Says Military Is Above Constitution and Threatens a Coup

Throughout the pandemic, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, downplayed the threat posed by Covid-19. In ...

Brazil's Butantan Institute is manufacturing a coronavirus vaccine in partnership with the Chinese company Sinovac | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images

The Day Funk Music Came to the Rescue of the Covid Vaccination Program in Brazil

For almost three decades, Brazil’s baile funk music genre has been attacked by conservative ...

A municipal health worker and an environmental military police officer carry the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to an Indigenous hut in Manaus, Brazil. - REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Pastors in Brazil Telling Amazon Indians Covid Vaccine Will Turn Them into Alligators

Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered ...

Indigenous Leader Sonia Guajajara of the Guajajara tribe. Reuters

Anti-vaxxers Kill Brazil Indian Leader After She Gets Covid Vaccine. It Was Fake News

Hours after Sonia Guajajara became one of Brazil’s first indigenous women to get a ...

A patient gets to ambulance in Manaus, Brazil Amazonas state, which is short of oxygen

Covid: Manaus, Inside the Brazilian Rain Forest, Begs the World for Oxygen

Amazonas state in northern Brazil has admitted it is running short of oxygen to ...

Sign in Curitiba, Brazil, bus says: "Wear a mask."

How a High-contact Culture Like Brazil Is Coping in a Covid World

Christmas is coming. Like many people around the world, Brazilians envy North Americans for ...

Ever since a 1904 revolt against the smallpox vaccine, Brazil has run extremely successful vaccination programs. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Once Again Brazilians Reject a Vaccine, This Time Led by Their President

The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several Covid-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President ...

Drawings of the Yanomami spirit beings known as xapiri were projected onto Brazil's Congress buildings, in a historic first. © Adriano Machado/ISA

Brazil Congress Gets Petition with 400 Thousand Signatures Against Yanomami Genocide

A 439,000 signature petition calling on the Brazilian government to prevent the genocide of ...

The protestors in São Paulo rallied in support of Bolsonaro, with one demonstrator holding a sign saying "We are not guinea pigs"

Brazilians Go to the Streets to Protest Against Chinese Covid Vaccine

More than 300 Brazilians gathered on São Paulo’s main commercial thoroughfare on Sunday to ...