MANILA, Philippines - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Department of Health (DOH) reported today that the disease that struck and killed Cambodian children in the last few months was of the encephalitis type and not the hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD) they earlier reported.
The health agencies maintained, however, that the new strain discovered is linked to the Enterovirus-71 (EV-71), which causes different diseases of varying intensities.
EV-71 may also cause HFMD as well as acute respiratory disease, acute flaccid paralysis (polio-like), and the deadly brainstem encephalitis...
...It also urged parents and day-care personnel to clean and disinfect toys and teaching tools that are easily shared with other children.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/10/12/cambodian-infection-encephalitis-type-not-hfmd
Undiagnosed illness in Cambodia - update
9 July 2012 -As part of the continuing investigations into the undiagnosed illness, the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia is finalizing the review of all suspected hospitalised cases. This final review added an additional two cases between April to 5 July 2012, making the total number of children affected to be 59. Of these, 52 have died.The age of the cases range ...
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_07_09/en/index.html
