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Antonio, from the Yanomami village of Watoriki, photographed in November 1992. After contact with Brazilian society in the 1970s, more than half the Yanomami population died from infectious diseases. William Milliken

Covid‑19, isolated indigenous peoples and the history of the Amazon

François-Michel Le Tourneau, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL and William Milliken, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.

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