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"The illegal miners are working near our village, they keep getting closer," Malirina Yanomami tells me. "There's lots of smoke from the machines and that's making kids ill. It causes tummy ache, malnutrition, the kids get skinny. Before, we didn't have so much illness, there were far less serious diseases and we got better quickly."