Swine flu hits Venezuelan tribe
Updated on 05 November 2009
Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, where the virus is suspected to have caused seven deaths, including six infants.
The deaths happened in forest villages near Venezuela's border with Brazil over the recent couple of weeks, said Raidan Bernade, a Venezuelan doctor on a team sent to contain the outbreak.
Mr Bernade told that doctors confirmed one of those who died had swine flu - a 35-year-old Yanomami woman who doctors believe was pregnant.
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