{"article":{"id":215815,"heading":"British TV crew 'spread deadly flu to remote Peruvian tribe'","author":"Nick Allen","created":"2008-03-28 06:20:53","modified":"2008-03-28 06:20:53","last_modified":"Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:20:53","article":"<p>The company has flatly denied its two-strong team was responsible, insisting they did not visit the area hit by the flu, and did not meet any of those who died.<br><br>\r\n\r\nThe Native Federation of River Madre de Dios and Subdiaries, which represents local tribes, accused the film-makers of \"threatening the lives of the local people\" and called for all film and television companies to be banned from the area.<br><br>\r\n\r\nDr Glenn Shephard, an American anthropologist who has studied the Matsigenka for 20 years and speaks their language fluently, said he met the research team in the less isolated village of Yomybato where Westerners are allowed to go.<br><br>\r\nMore<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.columnadeaztlan.com\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"A British production company making a reality television show in the Peruvian Amazon has been accused of starting a flu epidemic which allegedly killed four members of a remote native tribe and left many others seriously ill.\r\n\r\nIndigenous communities blamed researchers from London-based Cicada Films for the outbreak in the isolated Matsigenka tribe where people had previously had little contact with Western diseases.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/03\/215815.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}