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Members of the volunteer group Liga do Bem unload donated blankets. Liga do Bem began a campaign to collect 5,000 blankets for victims of the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul. (Tadeu Sposito/Senado Federal/CC BY 2.0 DEED)

Flooding in Brazil killed at least 143 people

Kamalini Nagarajan • May 14, 2024

Intense flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul killed at least 136 people, left 131 people missing, and displaced more than 400,000 people on May 9th, 2024.    The rain has flooded entire cities,...

Children play in a water fountain next to Olympic rings at Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 28, 2015. Facing severe budget cuts in almost all aspects of the games, the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will get a boost from Japanese electronics company Panasonic, which has signed on as "Official Ceremony Partner."(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil Picked to Host Summer Olympics, Problems Follow

July 5, 2016

By: Natalie Norman-Kehe Although many problems occurred within the mere months before the 2016 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee chose Rio De Janeiro to be the official host of the...

A health workers stands in the Sambadrome spraying insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Jan. 26, 2016. The Sambadrome will be used for the Archery competition during the 2016 Olympic games. With the opening ceremony less than three months away, a Canadian professor has called for the Rio Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak, warning the influx of visitors to Brazil will result in the avoidable birth of malformed babies. The IOC and World Health Organization disagree, saying Zika will not derail the games. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Zika fears threaten summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil

May 26, 2016

By: Maddie O’Shea Outbreaks. Fear. Chaos. All these words define the threat that health officials to athletes feel about the upcoming Summer Olympics held in South America. Despite efforts...

2015 photo, plastic bags and trash lay on the ground in Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, where many cases of Zika where reported in Pernambuco state, Brazil, Wednesday. The Zika virus, first detected about 40 years ago in Uganda, has long seen as a less-painful cousin to dengue and chikunguya, which are spread by the same Aedes mosquito. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

World Health Organization Declares Zika Virus Global Threat

May 13, 2016

By: Irene Ciocirlan A bite from a certain mosquito can cause more damage than just an itch. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency as of...

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