Brazil has failed to prove compliance with EU rules on use of antibiotics in cattle and poultry farming

The UK’s leading farming organisations and animal health experts have called for an urgent ban on imports of Brazilian meat, in light of concerns over the safety of imports.

The National Farmers’ Union in England and its sister organisations in the devolved administrations wrote to the government on Friday warning that public health was at risk.

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Governments around the world have passed or proposed a range of bans or restrictions on young teens using addictive social media platforms.

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A decade on from the outbreak, a second wave of complications is emerging in the ‘Zika babies’ born with severe defects

After a century of perfecting antivenom, Brazil’s Butantan Institute is sharing its life-saving snake research with the world

Trials show Lenacapavir can all but eliminate infection. Yet in the Latin American countries where it was tested almost no one can get it