
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