A chance Amazon encounter, then a tribe's near extinction

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A chance Amazon encounter, then a tribe's near extinction
10/25/2017 05:00:00 PM

Tzako Waiapi remembers perfectly the day he first stumbled across white men while hunting in the Amazon rainforest: within months nearly everyone he knew had died of a mysterious sickness.

That meeting at the opening of the 1970s was a stunning encounter between two worlds—and also the start of a terrible tragedy.

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