I saw this a long time ago, so the details are a bit hazy, but I think it was an NHK documentary. A television crew from some country (America, I think) went to cover an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon river basin in South America. The chief of the tribe was very friendly to the TV crew, cooperating with them in various ways, such as performing a welcoming dance. The crew also actively interviewed the villagers, and they seemed to get along well for about three days.
Then, a while after the crew returned to their home country, they received notice from the Brazilian government that the tribe they had covered had been wiped out. The cause was measles, mumps, or some other common disease that exists in Japan as well. They were infected by a carrier among the TV crew. Because the villagers had been isolated from the outside world, they had no antibodies, no medicine, and no ways to deal with it, so it spread explosively as a mass infection and they died one after another.
When the shocked crew arrived back at the location, only a few of the tribe's women and children had been placed under the protection of the Brazilian government. No one had meant any harm, yet it led to such a tragic ending. Furthermore, because the surviving women had no knowledge of infectious diseases, one of them commented to the crew, looking terribly frightened, "It's because the forest spirits were angered that the chief agreed to be interviewed." That left a really bad aftertaste.
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