Photographer

MARK EDWARDS

Image file number

SP1036177.jpg

Image size details

3508 x 5380 px
29.7 x 45.55 cm at 300 dpi

Credit

© MARK EDWARDS, HARD RAIN PICTURE LIBRARY

YANOMAMI AMERINDIANS, VENEZUELAN AMAZONAS. Serra Parima, Orinoco River Basin. A Yanomami mother with her child, comotose with malaria, at Caicet field hospital. Despite treatment, this child died in the night. Deadly strains of malaria, which the Yanomami have no resistance to, have probably been brought to the region by illegal gold miners. Thousands of Yanomami have died of malaria, which is threateneing the tribe with extinction. CDREF00266

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