TY - JOUR
T1 - SARS-CoV-2 in the Amazon region: A harbinger of doom for Amerindians
AU - Ramírez, Juan David
AU - Sordillo, Emilia Mia
AU - Gotuzzo, Eduardo
AU - Zavaleta, Carol
AU - Caplivski, Daniel
AU - Navarro, Juan Carlos
AU - Crainey, James Lee
AU - Luz, Sergio Luiz Bessa
AU - Delgado Noguera, Lourdes A.
AU - Schaub, Roxane
AU - Rousseau, Cyril
AU - Herrera, Giovanny
AU - Oliveira-Miranda, Maria A.
AU - Quispe-Vargas, Maria Teresa
AU - Hotez, Peter J.
AU - Mondolfi, Alberto Paniz
N1 - Funding Information:
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); Napole?n 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 Guidarelli, Tiphanie Succo and Julie Prudhomme from Sant? Publique France, French Guiana Regional Unit and Alice Sanna from the Regional Health Agency (French Guiana).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Ramírez et al.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686
DO - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008686
M3 - Article
C2 - 33119616
AN - SCOPUS:85094982327
SN - 1935-2727
VL - 14
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
JF - PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
IS - 10
M1 - e0008686
ER -
