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In Cambodia, It's aBad Year for Dengue Fever

Sun Narin

   Amir Khasru of the VOA Bangla Service contributed to this report.

   KRAYEA COMMUNE, KAMPONG THOM PROVINCE, CAMBODIA --The babies are
   crying, coughing as they vomit.

   Each parent holds one of the 8-month-old twins. Their daughters tested
   positive for the potentially lethal and almost always painful dengue
   fever.

   Lang Chanthoeun says she doesn't have money yet to get treatment for
   Pheak Sonisa and Pheak Somatha. "I tried to borrow money from relatives
   but they didn't have any," she said.

   "Last night, I couldn't sleep," said the 35-year-old mother of six who
   lives in a poor rural area of Cambodia's Kampong Thom province on the
   central lowlands of the Mekong River. The local rubber plantations in
   the province's Santuk district shelter mosquitos, making it a center of
   this year's dengue outbreak.

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