Fiocruz key to Brazil’s vaccine, drug production for 122 years

Early in 1900, the city of Rio de Janeiro was facing an epidemic of yellow fever and bubonic plague. To contain the advance of these diseases 122 years ago, the government inaugurated the Federal Serum Therapy Institute. The step marks the beginning of the history of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, also known as Fiocruz. In […]

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