Virus heads upriver in Brazil Amazon, sickens native people

Virus heads upriver in Brazil Amazon, sickens native people

Seattle Times

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MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — In the remote Amazon community of Betania, Tikuna tribe members suspect the coronavirus arrived this month after some returned from a two-hour boat trip down the Solimoes River to pick up their government benefit payments. Dozens subsequently got headaches, fevers and coughs. Two died. And the five government medical workers for […]

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