Susana Silva

TL;DR: The scenario observed for the latter indicates that more than 80% of childbearing women are susceptible to primary infection yielding a risk of congenital toxoplasmosis and respective sequelae, and the improvement of primary prevention constitutes a major tool to avoid infection in such susceptible groups.

TL;DR: The overall effect was generally higher and more persistent in Lisbon than in Oporto, particularly for circulatory and respiratory mortality and for the elderly, and the production of scientific evidence for the development of a real-time health warning system.

TL;DR: The European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network monitors weekly excess all-cause mortality in 27 European countries or subnational areas and is currently seeing another upsurge in COVID-19 cases.

TL;DR: The Mycosands initiative was created to generate data on fungi in beach sands and waters, of both coastal and freshwater inland bathing sites as mentioned in this paper, spanning from the Atlantic to the Eastern Mediterranean coasts, including the Italian lakes and the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was designed that included a total of 88 samples collected from drinking, superficial, underground water, and wastewater at three different treatment stages, and the results showed that NoV GI and GII should be further studied to provide the support that they may be suitable indicators for water quality monitoring targeting wastewater treatment efficiency, regardless of the level of treatment.