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Monday, July 9, 2012

EV-71 virus can result in brain swelling and death – Cambodian deaths tied to common child


health11 EV 71 virus can result in brain swelling and death   Cambodian deaths tied to common child illness
PHNOM PENH: Mean Thida, 4, affected with mystery disease, sleeps beside her mother as she receives treatment via a bottle of serum, not in photo, at their home near a dump site at Sambour village, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, yesterday. A deadly form of a common childhood illness has been linked to many of the mysterious child deaths in Cambodia that caused alarm after a cause could not immediately be determined, health officials said yesterday.— AP
http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2012/07/09/ev-71-virus-can-result-in-brain-swelling-and-death-cambodian-deaths-tied-to-common-child-illness/