A Yanomami tribe woman and her child: resistance to modern antibiotics shocks scientists
A remote tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon appears to be resistant to modern antibiotics even though its members have had barely any contact with the outside world, researchers said Friday.
The people, known as the Yanomami, were first spotted by air in 2008, and were visited a year later by a Venezuelan medical team that took samples from 34 of them, including skin and mouth swabs and stool samples.
To protect their privacy, the name of their village was withheld from publication.
Scientists found that the tribespeople’s microbiome — the …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
