How an Amazon rainforest village survived Covid-19 with modern and traditional medicine

While cities across Latin America's biggest country have already been hit hard, there are growing fears that the disease could spread even deeper into its rural communities, especially those in the Brazilian rainforest. Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum has been to meet members of the Kambeba tribe to find out how they have been coping.
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[nephildevil]

I'd laugh, but the rainforest actually has lots of plants with medicinal properties we still know nothing about, it's one of the reasons preservation is so important, you never know what you'll find in there.

[dockaos]

Wherey did modern medicine get most of its medicines 🤔
Oh I know plants and herbs

[Spacex-yup]

Yes...I believe...thank GOD with the knowledge....they used👏👏👏

[Kciano]

The Amazonian people so far behind us in technology yet so far ahead of us in natural medicines.

[silvialogan]

Being in the Amazon forest is one of the safest places to be in Brazil away from big crowds and using traditional and modern medicine together.

[Martial-Mat]

1. Be in the Amazon rain forest hundreds of miles from anyone.
2. See 1.

[selmaalkasasbeh]

what are the plants name use in this infusion?

[joebloggs]

first one was like laurel, second like sage

[omaramoodi]

How the £@(k did this virus spread to such a remote area. And did she say they had a 100% recovery rate.

[adamtitterington]

1 person died from covid out of 470, roughly 2 per 1000, and therefore 2000 per million, they have a far larger death rate per capita than the UK, which is 3rd behind San Marino and Belgium

[Mortimer_Duke]

Lemme guess. They generally stayed the f*ck away from each other - and when they needed to gather or interact, they used their heads and took care about how they breathed both in and out.

[Proverbspsalms]

It’s not there either. Either these are actors or someone went their and convinced them this existed

[msbee-xjni]

this cannot be watched outside the UK?

[thefuture]

Too early to call victory on this, anywhere. Ever heard of round 2?

[jonsid]

Ludicrous item. Still, nice little holiday for the hack and crew.

[julianaylor]

It may be not just their traditional medicine, but their genes. They are a different genetic group from the rest of Brazil.