Thailand:
small Cambodian returned to their country
July
24, 2012
A
hundred street children were expelled by the Thai authorities to Poipet.
EV71
virus has killed a little Thai in Bangkok.The
little beggars expelled to the border post 21 and July 22 had a high fever,
symptoms of infectious disease Hand, foot and mouth (MPMB) that killed sixty
children in Cambodia since April ,
reported the Phnom Penh Post newspaper of 23 July.
Thai
authorities were acting as part of a national campaign to prevent the disease
and started on July 20 to screen children to cross the Cambodian border.
But
their Cambodian counterparts denounced overzealous. "The
Thai authorities are afraid of the spread of EV71 [enterovirus that causes the
disease] Thai children at the border, and therefore they provide a free medical
examination and drug Cambodian children," said the newspaper Keo
Sopheaktra,
the director of health department of the province of Banteay Meanchey.
"But they do not have
the disease. They
have a simple fever can be treated with simple medication. "
According
to Thai media, some 300 Cambodian children taken by the Thai side their parents
would have received free medical examination.
For
its part, the daily Bangkok Post reported July 23 that a little girl of two and
a half years died July 18 at a hospital in Bangkok, the first death attributed
to MPMB this year in Thailand. His
lungs, his heart and his brain would have been achieved, but it did not have the
common symptoms of blisters on hands, feet and mouth, and experts are not all
agree on the causes of death. Health
authorities, who want to avoid widespread panic, however, confirmed that EV71
was concerned, traces of the virus being found in the victim's throat.
His
body is the subject of an autopsy, and discovered the virus is being analyzed to
see if it has not mutated. According
to the July 24 edition of the newspaper, more than 14,000 cases were reported
MPMB in the country yesterday.
In
Phnom Penh, the Phnom Penh Post reports that the case of a three year old child
with the disease was confirmed on the community site of Borey Keila, where
hundreds of families evicted several months ago as well as live
evil
in makeshift tents and in unsanitary conditions
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