DENGUE FEVER, MALARIA AND ?

JULY 13 - Even with the no-rain rainy season, there is plenty of water laying around Cambodia for a high dengue fever and malaria season. One other terrible thing especially for infants and toddlers here. Many young children get this infection I do not yet know the name in English. It was described to me as inflammation of the lining around the brain. I see some of these children. They are lethargic and listless.

If parents can get money, they can take the child to a clinic and get the medicine administered, get some oxygen and then get sent home with the oxygen tubes in place in the nose. I'm not sure yet how all this works. Clinics and hospitals are now administering this medicine routinely to infants and children.

I think this is a dangerous year for infants and children in Cambodia.