http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Matsigenka Posts tagged with 'Matsigenka' at MetaFilter. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:19:43 -0800 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:19:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70284/Influenza%2Din%2Dthe%2DAmazon <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/26/nperu126.xml">A British TV crew have been accused of spreading flu to a remote Peruvian tribe of 250 members</a>, leading to 4 deaths. TV director <a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:4blA4mPyQBwJ:www.mattcurrington.com/+http://www.mattcurrington.com/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari">Matt Currington</a> (google cache) and team were researching for the <a href="http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/worldslosttribes/index.shtml">Discovery channel</a> in the Peruvian Amazon, when flu struck the Matsigenka people. Despite <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/27/conservation.realitytv?gusrc=rss&feed=media">denials</a> from the production company, <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/sophiad/mock/Glenn/gscvf.htm">US anthropologist Glen Shepherd</a> has substantiated the allegations. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70284 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:19:43 -0800 amazon flu influenza Matsigenka realitytelevision roofus