Monday Spotlight, ADVISORY

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The following story has moved as this week's Monday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-BRAZIL -- In the village of Betania in the Brazilian Amazon, dozens of Tikuna tribespeople have headaches, fevers and coughs. The Tikuna believe they contracted the novel coronavirus when a group of tribal members went an hour down the Solimoes River this month to pick up government benefit payments. Without protective equipment or COVID tests, government medical workers aren’t treating the sick because they fear catching the disease. So the Tikuna are burning medicinal plants and bee hives and inhaling the smoke, a traditional remedy for respiratory disease. After weeks of raging through Brazilian cities, the novel coronavirus has begun to reach tribal areas in the Amazon rainforest, bringing grave danger to some of the world’s most vulnerable people, tribal members who live close together with few resources and little access to modern medicine. By David Biller and Renata Brito. SENT: 1,040 words, photos, video.

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