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Swine flu ravages Amazon's Yanomani tribe

Source: Inquirer.net
Caracas : Venezuela | 20 days ago  
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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 have died in the last two weeks and 1,000 others are...
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  • 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...
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  • Blog Source: www.indychai.com
    Indian tribe in Amazon hit by swine flu. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:41:00 +0530; A further 1000 members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela are believed to have caught the flu, the indigenous peoples rights group said. ...
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    Indigenous Venezuelan tribe hit by flu outbreak. An indigenous community living in isolation in an Amazon jungle region within Venezuela is reported to have been infected with swine flu. Survival International which champions the ...
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    source: Swine flu has hit an isolated tribe of Indians in the Amazon jungle, with seven dying in the last two weeks, Survival International said on Wednesday. A further 1000 members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela are believed to ...
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