Kids Dying with 24hrs of Sickness Symptoms in Cambodia

This is not good. A mysterious Illness is killing children within 24 hours in Cambodia. An area where swine flu and hand, foot, mouth disease started and spread... Cambodia is an area where if there's a problem or an oncoming epidemic, it's of grave concern to the rest of the world. They (scientists and doctors) currently don't know what's starting this.

Some viruses, such as EnteroVirus 71 (typically contagious), are similar in symptoms but not affect the body as bad. Somehow, it doesn't seem that this new disease (unknown in name or origin) is contagious in the same way. Hopefully this will be figured out before spreading occurs to other areas.


Sanja Gupta reports on CNN.com about the problem [click here to read more].