Why Brazil's Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
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Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. While many in Brazil were left wondering how the calamity could materialize seemingly overnight, it d…
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Miners in the area had been largely expelled in the area but urged on in recent years by former Pres. Bolsonaro, with mining polluting the area and destroying the habitat.
Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. While many in Brazil were left wondering how the calamity could materialize seemingly overnight, it d…
