Title
Sars-cov-2 in the amazon region: A harbinger of doom for amerindians
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ramírez J.D.
Sordillo E.M.
Caplivski D.
Navarro J.C.
Crainey J.L.
Luz S.L.B.
Delgado Noguera L.A.
Schaub R.
Rousseau C.
Herrera G.
Oliveira-Miranda M.A.
Quispe-Vargas M.T.
Hotez P.J.
Mondolfi A.P.
Publisher(s)
Public Library of Science
Abstract
As the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic contin-ues to expand, healthcare resources globally have been spread thin. Now, the disease is rapidly spreading across South America, with deadly consequences in areas with already weakened public health systems. The Amazon region is particularly susceptible to the wide-spread devastation from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its immunologi-cally fragile native Amerindian inhabitants and epidemiologic vulnerabilities. Herein, we discuss the current situation and potential impact of COVID-19 in the Amazon region and how further spread of the epidemic wave could prove devastating for many Amerindian people living in the Amazon rainforest.
Start page
1
End page
10
Volume
14
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85094982327
PubMed ID
Source
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
ISSN of the container
19352727
Source funding
Wellcome Trust
Sponsor(s)
was provided by the University of Glasgow, Scottish Funding Council and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and GCRF Research Network EP/T003782/1. CZ is funded by a Welcome Trust International Training Fellowship. MAOM and MTQV (Wataniba) are funded by Swift Foundation and The Full Circle Foundation, Special Grants to support Amazon Indigenous Peoples on the context of the COVID-19 emergency. JCN is funded by Grant P011617_2 DII-UISEK, Ecoepidemiology in silico of Emerging Diseases. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We would like to thank the support of the Vector Borne Disease Control Network-Venezuela (VeConVen); Professor Jaime Miranda from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru); Napoleón Malpica from Grupo de Trabajo Socioambiental de la Amazonia Wataniba (Vene-zuela); The Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples from Amazonas (ORPIA; Venezu-ela); Audrey Andrieu, Manon Guidar ...
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