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The maize Mexico does not want

Mexico buys an estimated 15 million tonnes of genetically modified maize from the US. Even so, its production is minor compared to the other varieties present in Mexico’s rich and varied diet.   It is the other way around in the United States: it is the most exported and almost […]

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From the mpox virus to the old cholera

It was detected for the first time in 1970, in a nine-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where the virus had been eradicated in 1968. Since then, the majority of cases have been found in rural regions of tropical forests in the Congo River basin, […]