Research Continues Into Mystery Disease in Cambodia

10 de julio de 2012, 15:20 Phnom Penh, July 10 (Prensa Latina) Specialized physicians are continuing their tireless efforts today to identify a rare disease that has killed at least 61 children under three years of age in Cambodia. Virologists at the Pasteur Institute, involved in the investigation, dismissed for now that it has anything to do with Enterovirus 71 (EV71), associated with brucellosis, as a cause of the sudden outbreak of severe fever and respiratory and neurological problems detected in the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in this capital... However, they are considering the possibility that since brucellosis is endemic in neighboring Indochinese countries, they may be dealing with a mutation of the virus.  ....Although 15 of the 24 blood samples analyzed by Pasteur Institute showed the presence of EV71, Asgari noted that these results require further research in the coming days... http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=524596&Itemid=1