News Source: BBC
| 19 days ago
Survival International said several hundred members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela could be infected. The Venezuelan government has yet to confirm the deaths but said that a team was in the region to investigate. An outbreak among the isolated...
News Source: Inquirer.net
| 20 days ago
The swine flu pandemic is spreading quickly among the Yanomani tribe, in a remote corner of the Amazon jungle straddling Brazil and Venezuela, and a medical team is heading there to help, government officials said. At least seven members of the tribe...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 20 days ago
Venezuela— Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon , and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants. The deaths happened...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 20 days ago
It is feared the flu could sweep through the area and kill many more Yanomami as the Indians have little resistance to introduced diseases. About 32,000 Yanomami live in the Venezuela-Brazil border region and form the largest relatively isolated...