British TV company accused of bringing epidemic to isolated Indians

//www.survival-international.org/lib/img/gallery/User_Galleries/news/news/matsigenka-man.jpg' cannot be displayed]“A fierce controversy is raging in the Peruvian Amazon over the activities of a film crew working for the British TV company Cicada Films. Local Indians, government officials and independent scientists have accused the film-makers of visiting very isolated Indian communities, despite being warned not to. The isolated Indians reported later that the visit provoked an epidemic of respiratory disease that left four people dead and others seriously ill.” (Survival International)