SMOKE from wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has been causing health problems throughout the region, causing coughing, burning throats and sore eyes.

Large swathes of the country have been covered in smoke in recent days from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of Sao Paulo.

Many residents are struggling including Fatima Silva, a 60-year-old farmer in the Amazonian town of Labrea.