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Наверное, все слышали о том, что в Камбодже появилась какая-то зараза, которая выкашивает исключительно детей, за неделю 60 жертв.
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) -- The World Health Organization, in conjunction with the Cambodian Ministry of Health, will conclude that a combination of pathogens is to blame for the mysterious illness that has claimed the lives of more than 60 children in Cambodia, medical doctors familiar with the investigation told CNN on Wednesday. The pathogens include enterovirus 71, streptococcus suis and dengue, the medical sources said. Additionally, the inappropriate use of steroids, which can suppress the immune system, worsened the illness in a majority of the patients, they said.
Мамбо-джамбо, мамбо-джамбо, курылтай-мурылтай, сирин-мирин-мордехай. Стероиды у детишек нашли, и надо ж такому случиться что 60 человек ни с того ни с сего враз подхватили три заразы, хотя дотоле о таком никто не слыхал.
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I'm a behavioral scientist and have lived and conducted research in Cambodia and throughout Southeast Asia for 10 years. About 3 years ago the Cambodian government had a campaign to educate people regarding the need to wash their hands after using the bathroom, but trying to convince people of the need to do so (or even defecating/urinating away from where they sleep/eat) is an uphill battle. The education and literacy levels in Cambodia are abysmally low; corruption is rampant as is sex-trafficking; and the country has received billions in foreign aid yet problems persist with some getting worse. That said, the country has come a long way from when I first went there 10 years ago. Many would give a knee-jerk reaction and blame it all on the Khmer Rouge or Western ‘imperialism’. However, the reality is Cambodia has always had these problems. The country was never an ‘island of peace’ as King Sihanouk liked to proclaim. The real issue is the country’s reaction to modernity. Whenever faced with issues such as these, ‘foreigners’ (particularly Vietnamese) are often blamed. Meanwhile, trying to convince Khmers to do something like washing your hands after using the toilet often fails because many look down on such actions as ‘ba-rung’ (Western) customs. The Cambodian government (which is made up of former Khmer Rouge including its prime minister/dictator Hun Sen) has long used the ‘traditional culture’ card to drum up support against foreign critics on issues such as sex-trafficking, deforestation, and corruption to name but a few. The unfortunate reality is that problems such as these will continue to be endemic in any culture that looks at even the smallest changes as a threat to ‘traditional’ culture.
"Вот пишешь про зверей и насекомых, А попадаешь все в знакомых" (ц) П.Данилину должно понравиться.
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