Peru's Health Ministry found shocking contamination among the Nahua, but hasn't published its reportAn indigenous people living in one of the remotest parts of the Peruvian Amazon has been struck by a mystery mercury epidemic, according to an unpublished Health Ministry report dated 2015 and 2017 seen by the Guardian.The Nahua only entered into sustained contact with "outsiders" in the mid-1980s, which led to almost 50% of the population dying mainly from respiratory and infectious diseases. Today, numbering less than 500 people, the vast majority live in a village in the Kugapakori, Nahua, Nanti and Others Reserve established for indigenous peoples in "voluntary isolation" and "initial contact" in south-east Peru. Continue reading...
Remote Amazon tribe hit by mercury crisis, leaked report says
24. ledna 2018 11:31
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2018/jan/24/amazon-tribe-mercury-crisis-leaked-report
Zdroj: The Guardian