Typhoid a ‘burden’ near Tonle Sap: study

[geovalin]

Yesenia Amaro

A new study has found that there is a “substantial burden” of pediatric typhoid fever in rural communes in Cambodia.

The peer-reviewed research, published this month in the scientific journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, is aimed at better understanding the infectious disease in the Kingdom, given the limited data on the epidemiology of the disease, which is caused by the bacterium salmonella typhai.

Researchers, including some from Oxford and Cambridge universities, obtained routine data from Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap. According to the data, there were a total of 262 cases within a 100-kilometre radius of the hospital during the period studied. The median age for each patient was just over 8 years old.

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[mrfaroukh]

Living in Thailand travelling to places like India, Cambodia, Lao etc we all including people of these countries need to take few necessary vaccines/

1. Hepatitis A ( Depend on the vaccine, some One shot life time, others 2 shots life time, ask the doctor)
2. Hepatitis B (Single Booster every 5 years)
3. Japanese Encephalitis ( Some say one shot for life time, others say 2 shots for life time)
4. Tetanus ( 3 times, Now, after one month, after 6 months from the last shot , repeat every 5 years)
5. Typhoid ( Every 3 years)

The only expensive vaccine is number 3 but worth to protect yourself. Make your own enquiries as well.

Have a good health