A fierce controversy is raging in the Peruvian Amazon over the activities of a film crew working for the British TV company Cicada Films. Local Indians, government officials and independent scientists have accused the film-makers of visiting very isolated Indian communities, despite being warned not to. The isolated Indians reported later that the visit provoked an epidemic of respiratory disease that left four people dead and others seriously ill... Cicada Films, however, adamantly deny the allegations. They say, ‘We emphatically deny being responsible of [sic] the introduction of the reported respiratory diseases, since when we arrived we found local people already ill with symptoms and signs of respiratory disease, in the settlements we visited.’ [also refers to Discovery Channel (part of Discovery Communications)]