Peru News » Amazona News Peru » Amazona » Health: Peru Amazon highway tied to 400% dengue surge within 5 kilometers of road
New roads bring changes to the regions they traverse. They can enable job opportunities, access to medicine and health care, and electricity. But they also disrupt local ecosystems and can have ...
News Peru » Amazona » Health: A girl dies of measles in the Peruvian Amazon
For the first time in 23 years, measles has claimed a life in Peru. The victim was a 16-year-old girl who lived in one of the hundreds of small settlements scattered throughout the Amazon rainforest.
News Peru » Amazona » Health: Mercury poisoning in Peru’s Amazon threatens health disaster
LIMA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous and riverine communities in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon have “chronic exposure” to mercury, according to a new study by the Center for ...
News Peru » Amazona » Health: Colorimetric LAMP Test Spots Hidden Malaria Infections in the Peruvian Amazon
A colorimetric LAMP assay combined with column-based DNA extraction markedly outperformed microscopy for detecting low-density Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum infections from dried blood spots in ...
News Peru » Amazona » Health: Peru grants legal rights to stingless bees for the 1st time
In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...
News Peru » Amazona » Health: New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since 2003, Indigenous organizations have been calling for the establishment of Yavarí Mirim, an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated ...
News Peru » Amazona » Health: Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Discussions around the construction of a railway line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in South America have raised concerns about the ...