The non-emergency calls included a person looking for assistance in finding their walking stick, a patient who had fallen off a chair — who was already in the hospital — and a woman who complained of having a “horrendous nightmare.”
one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, confirmed Friday the country’s firstoutbreak on a commercial farm.
The virus was found at a facility in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the country’s agriculture ministry said in a statement. It said a contingency plan has been implemented “not only to eliminate the disease but also to maintain the sector’s productive capacity, ensuring supply and, consequently, food security for the population.”The ministry said it has notified the World Organization for Animal Health, the Ministries of Health and the Environment and Brazil’s trade partners.The agency said in a statement later Friday that China and the European Union have halted poultry imports from Brazil, following trade agreements.
Restriction on poultry exports follows rules agreed on with each importing country, based on international health certificate requirements, the Agriculture and Livestock ministry added. Depending on the type of the disease, some deals apply to the whole country while others involve limits on where products can come from — for example, a specific state, city or just the area of the outbreak.“Countries like Japan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the Philippines have already accepted this regional approach,” the ministry said.
Brazil is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of poultry, accounting for 14% of global chicken meat production, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
following the bird flu outbreak boosted Brazilian egg exports to the U.S., rising by more than 1,000% between January and April 2025 compared to the same period the previous year, according to trade data from the Brazilian government.Los antiguos humanos no necesariamente cazaban ballenas, dijo el autor del estudio, Jean-Marc Petillon, del Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia. Más probablemente, rebuscaban los cuerpos de los cetáceos varados y tallaban sus densos y pesados huesos para construir herramientas para cazar renos o bisontes.
Las herramientas indican que los pueblos antiguos del área aprovechaban los recursos cercanos al mar para sobrevivir. Probablemente también recolectaban conchas marinas y pescaban. Ha sido difícil encontrar pruebas de lo anterior, ya que el aumento del nivel del mar altera las costas en todo el mundo, dijeron los científicos.“Es una contribución más a la importancia de los entornos costeros para los grupos humanos, incluso en este pasado lejano”, señaló Petillon.
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