Phnom Penh, Cambodia-Childhood Illness-Health Officials-Mystery Disease-Child Deaths

Cambodian deaths tied to common child illness

Mean Thida, 4, affected with mystery disease, sleeps at her home near a dump site at Sambour village, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 9, 2012. 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 Monday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A deadly form of a common childhood illness has been linked to the mysterious child deaths in Cambodia that sparked alarm after a cause could not immediately be determined, health officials said Monday. read more..

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Child Illness Deadly-Phnom Penh, Cambodia-Cambodian Children-Chicken Pox

Potent form of common child illness deadly in Asia

Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a disease that in Asia is as common as chicken pox, and usually about as severe. read more..

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Childhood Illness Rages-Phnom Penh, Cambodia-Mystery Disease

Common childhood illness rages across Asia

Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Hanoi hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a disease that in Asia is as common as chicken pox, and usually about as severe. read more..

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