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Wow. Pandemic is right! H1N1 Strikes Isolated Indigenous Group In Amazon

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 09:04 PM
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Wow. Pandemic is right! H1N1 Strikes Isolated Indigenous Group In Amazon
http://cbs11tv.com/health
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 in forest villages near Venezuela's border with Brazil over the past 2 1/2 weeks, said Raidan Bernade, a Venezuelan doctor on a team sent to contain the outbreak and treat the ill.
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   wow is right. You have to wonder how it got to them.  Greybnk48   Nov-04-09 09:11 PM   #1 
   Seriously. That was my first thought  Horse with no Name   Nov-04-09 09:12 PM   #2 
   they don't live under glass  Kali   Nov-04-09 09:15 PM   #3 
   Yes but their is a high degree of isolation.  Greybnk48   Nov-04-09 09:20 PM   #4 
   Any visitor could have spread it  Bitwit1234   Nov-04-09 10:23 PM   #5 
 
Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 09:11 PM
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1. wow is right. You have to wonder how it got to them.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 09:12 PM
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2. Seriously. That was my first thought
:shrug:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 09:15 PM
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3. they don't live under glass
isolated does not equal no contact (note that there is a medical team obviously "in contact")
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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 09:20 PM
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4. Yes but their is a high degree of isolation.
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-04-09 10:23 PM
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5. Any visitor could have spread it
and since they are so isolated they probably don't have any kind of any immunity built up. And that makes it worst.
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