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The Venezuelan Society of Public Health and the Network Defend National Epidemiology alerted about the measles epidemic suffered by the indigenous Yanomami group in the municipality Alto Orinoco, State from Amazonas due to lack of vaccination and inadequate coverage of the health system in this difficult area of access.
The two organizations reported that until July 7, there were 121 cases of measles in this municipality mainly indigenous Sanema, a yanomami subgroup, of which [1945900753died.
In a report, experts reported that the virus began to affect the communities of Alto Ocamo-Parima in March. [19659002] 
However, as these are very difficult access areas because of their location and environmental conditions, the number of contagious people is not specified.
This is due to the fact that these indigenous communities have not been vaccinated against measles and other diseases.
In addition, they warned that the relationship with illegal miners that abound in the area is also involved; when one of them carries the virus, it facilitates the transmission of the condition of rapid contagion, to be in constant motion between communities.
It is assumed that as a boomerang effect, the disease is again entering Venezuela from Brazil, After February, cases were exported to this country as a result of the exodus Venezuelans, mainly from the states of Bolívar and Delta Amacuro.
The organizations called on the central government to participate, a vast vaccination plan and medical care, to these unprotected communities, to avoid "serious epidemics that can decimate their population, as happened before . "
"We demand that the Ministry of Health give immediate priority to public attention actions, aimed at controlling the epidemic that puts these ancestral indigenous peoples at risk of extinction," says part of the document.
On the border side, in Brazil, 59 cases of measles were confirmed among Venezuelan Yanomami, out of 67 in total of the ethnic group living between the two countries, reported the Brazilian portal G1, according to data provided by the Yanomami Special Sanitary District and the Iekuana indigenous health
The epidemic which is concentrated in 11 villages, five in Venezuela still presents nine cases awaiting confirmation, six of which are Venezuelan indigenous, says the portal. He points out that the people affected in the country, in the absence of medical service, migrate to Brazil for treatment.
"We have no control over the disease among Venezuelan natives, because the vaccination is very low, they get sick." In Brazil looking for help because of the bankruptcy of the system of health in Venezuela, "said Rousicler de Jesús Oliveira, coordinator of the Yanomami Special Health District and Iekuana Indigenous Health, in statements to the G1.
Data from the Brazilian authorities in the border state of Roraima reported 412 measles cases, of which 200 were confirmed.
Up to 30 May, 57 of them came from Venezuela and of the same number, 34 were indigenous people
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