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

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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.

[Greybnk48]

1. wow is right. You have to wonder how it got to them.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Seriously. That was my first thought

:shrug:

[Kali]

3. they don't live under glass

isolated does not equal no contact (note that there is a medical team obviously "in contact")

[Greybnk48]

4. Yes but their is a high degree of isolation.

[Bitwit1234]

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.