Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Mongabay
May 9, 2019, 11:19 am318 pts
“The girl was very sick with pneumonia, and there were no nebulizers,” a resident of the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Territorial Reserve (RTKNN) in southeastern Peru told Mongabay. The person, who preferred to remain anonymous, was referring to a September 2018 incident in Santa Rosa de Serjali, a community of…

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