The last paragraph reveals how serious the lack of medical attention can be:
"In the mid-1980s, a group of Yora tribespeople who made contact with loggers in their region in the Peruvian Amazon were first infected by influenza and later came down with pneumonia and other secondary infections. Without antibiotics, “the old people died and all the young kids died,” Hill says. A subsequent study by medical anthropologist Glenn Shepard of the Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil, revealed that some 300 people died, between 50% and 60% of the population."
It's a tragic illustration of one of the points of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/07/uncontacted-t...
(Abstract only, main report is behind a paywall.) And the recent update:
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/07/did-brazils-uncont...
The last paragraph reveals how serious the lack of medical attention can be:
"In the mid-1980s, a group of Yora tribespeople who made contact with loggers in their region in the Peruvian Amazon were first infected by influenza and later came down with pneumonia and other secondary infections. Without antibiotics, “the old people died and all the young kids died,” Hill says. A subsequent study by medical anthropologist Glenn Shepard of the Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil, revealed that some 300 people died, between 50% and 60% of the population."
It's a tragic illustration of one of the points of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel.