THE PLIGHT OF THE YANOMAMI

The main effect of the impacts is disease. When the miners came they brought all sorts of different diseases that the Yanomami had never come across before, because the Yanomami's immune system had not developed to western diseases even the common cold could do serious damage even kill them in some odd cases. The Yanomami are also in some tribes starving as the miners are taking all of their food and they have nothing to eat.