Here's a start with the 25 common causes of death.
TOP 25 CAUSES OF DEATH AGE-STANDARDIZED DEATH RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION
1. Coronary Heart Disease 81.89
2. Tuberculosis 72.57
3. Stroke 71.02
4. Influenza and Pneumonia 50.72
5. HIV/AIDS 20.05
6. Liver Cancer 18.99
7. Lung Disease 16.80
8. Road Traffic Accidents 16.46
9. Diabetes Mellitus 14.04
10. Other Injuries 13.96
11. Hypertension 13.56
12. Cervical Cancer 12.91
13. Low Birth Weight 12.08
14. Asthma 11.59
15. Kidney Disease 10.36
16. Birth Trauma 9.68
17. Congenital Anomalies 9.55
18. Suicide 9.50
19. Lung Cancers 9.47
20. Diarrhoeal diseases 9.43
21. Liver Disease 9.40
22. Breast Cancer 9.39
23. Drownings 8.41
24. Rheumatic Heart Disease 7.53
25. Violence 6.48
source World Life Expectancy
Here's a review on Viral Hepatitis in Cambodia http://www.jaypeejournals.com/eJournals ... &isPDF=YES
The most common diseases around you?
And where does the WHO data come from, do you think? They check every case by themselves?Hanno wrote:Never mind the stats, in 9 years here I have not come across a single person that caught Malaria. In Kenya, I do not know a single person that did not have Malaria at one stage or another (I reckon I must have had Malaria 10+ times).Kachang wrote:How I love the people believing Cambodian stat's...Hanno wrote:Khmer Rouge oxygen-sucking killer trees.....
As for Malaria being common: there were 4000 admissions and 160 deaths last year, which is not a whole lot to say Kenya (where I grew up), which had 25,000 deaths 2 years ago.
And the stats are from WHO, not the Cambodian government
Husband of a friend of mine caught malaria and dengue the same time, he died within days. This was in Ratanakiri provincial hospital so healthcare was probably not optimal.Malaria is pretty common there so is dengue.
The list of death proportions a previous poster posted(?) is flawed as many of those those items are not mutually exclusive.
So, what is likely to get you? (I'm going to guess your western, an adult and vaccinated).
Diahorrea/Stomach Bug ( ) - Don't even bother trying to figure out where you got it from, when you do you will feel even sicker thinking about it. Hydrate and invest in expensive toilet paper.
If you're sleeping around ( ) - STI will likely get you at some point, but it is treatable (not the best advice...). You must tell the girl!! These can go unnoticed in females and can cause serious problems (I would expect this to be exacerbated in Cambodia).
Skin Infections ( )- No biggie with right treatment.
Dengue ( ) - Always a real chance to put you in hospital. No treatment but patience required.
Flu ( ) - Bird flu kicking around at the moment (H1N1). All live chicken markets are tested weekly in PP - that problem ain't going anywhere.
OTHERWISE Alcohol, Drugs and the Road should fill anything I missed.
So, what is likely to get you? (I'm going to guess your western, an adult and vaccinated).
Diahorrea/Stomach Bug ( ) - Don't even bother trying to figure out where you got it from, when you do you will feel even sicker thinking about it. Hydrate and invest in expensive toilet paper.
If you're sleeping around ( ) - STI will likely get you at some point, but it is treatable (not the best advice...). You must tell the girl!! These can go unnoticed in females and can cause serious problems (I would expect this to be exacerbated in Cambodia).
Skin Infections ( )- No biggie with right treatment.
Dengue ( ) - Always a real chance to put you in hospital. No treatment but patience required.
Flu ( ) - Bird flu kicking around at the moment (H1N1). All live chicken markets are tested weekly in PP - that problem ain't going anywhere.
OTHERWISE Alcohol, Drugs and the Road should fill anything I missed.
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you don't have to sleep around to get an STI/SDTDreadedDr wrote:The list of death proportions a previous poster posted(?) is flawed as many of those those items are not mutually exclusive.
So, what is likely to get you? (I'm going to guess your western, an adult and vaccinated).
Diahorrea/Stomach Bug ( ) - Don't even bother trying to figure out where you got it from, when you do you will feel even sicker thinking about it. Hydrate and invest in expensive toilet paper.
If you're sleeping around ( ) - STI will likely get you at some point, but it is treatable (not the best advice...). You must tell the girl!! These can go unnoticed in females and can cause serious problems (I would expect this to be exacerbated in Cambodia).
Skin Infections ( )- No biggie with right treatment.
Dengue ( ) - Always a real chance to put you in hospital. No treatment but patience required.
Flu ( ) - Bird flu kicking around at the moment (H1N1). All live chicken markets are tested weekly in PP - that problem ain't going anywhere.
OTHERWISE Alcohol, Drugs and the Road should fill anything I missed.
bird flu still a 'thing'? what happened to swine flu?
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Long-post sorry...Kachang wrote:And where does the WHO data come from, do you think? They check every case by themselves?Hanno wrote:Never mind the stats, in 9 years here I have not come across a single person that caught Malaria. In Kenya, I do not know a single person that did not have Malaria at one stage or another (I reckon I must have had Malaria 10+ times).Kachang wrote:How I love the people believing Cambodian stat's...Hanno wrote:Khmer Rouge oxygen-sucking killer trees.....
As for Malaria being common: there were 4000 admissions and 160 deaths last year, which is not a whole lot to say Kenya (where I grew up), which had 25,000 deaths 2 years ago.
And the stats are from WHO, not the Cambodian government
Husband of a friend of mine caught malaria and dengue the same time, he died within days. This was in Ratanakiri provincial hospital so healthcare was probably not optimal.Malaria is pretty common there so is dengue.
Malaria is still a huge problem in Africa, with 85-90% of all global cases reported there. SE. Asia comes in a distant 2nd though with 10%. Still plenty of cases in Cambo though. Pasteur has built its 2nd mobile lab to address the issue. It's a caravan all decked out with gadgets so in can stay in the field and roam where it needs to without needs mains power. The real unique problem in Cambodia is that the Western side is ground-zero for the drug-resistant strains - a mystery being worked on as I type.
The other key problem here is the poor health during childhood, which makes the children very prone to the disease becoming nasty. Earlier this year we had two very young boys in one week, who were not related and from different parts of the country, that were extremely unfortunate to have the malaria parasite migrate to their brain (cerebral malaria) instead of manifest in their liver where we can at least get to it with treatment and give them a fighting chance. Still baffles me that case...
For the WHO vs MoH Data, this is how it works for Malaria (specifically). CNM (Cambo gov malaria center) are accredited by WHO as the National Reference Lab (as are the National Institute of Public Health Labs). They will follow the WHO guidelines on how to test for the parasite so that WHO can have standardized results. When a patient is suspected of Malaria, their blood is sent to them and once tested, their anonymous result is loaded onto a national register administered by MoH (naturally the results are given back to the patient/Dr as well). The Minister signs it, hands it to WHO, who then use it for data analysis. MoH will also analyse it and form their own opinions, which is usually done with Pasteur (officially under MoH), CNM, NiPHL, WHO and some other friends.
WHO in an administrator who supports health care through some funding, logistics, international agreements, governance, accreditation and a degree of over-sight. It is worth noting that although CNM have had their issues, they did do a good job in 2000 when the Malaria problem was blowing-out and mortality has dropped nearly 50% since then. Kenya took another 6-years (2006) to get onto it but is moving forward. There are far better ways to test Malaria than what CNM/WHO use, but it's partly funds and partly skills that limits them, and if they change techniques (from microscope analysis to DNA/molecular analysis) the surrounding region probably needs to as well.
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Some of our members are concerned about the serious diseases resulting from exposure to Muslimic ray guns.
And here's a song about it.
Stay safe out there folks.
And here's a song about it.
Stay safe out there folks.
Yes, it never disappeared. Some exceptions exist, but effectively the influenza virus is an avian virus; birds are the natural host and as the natural host they are not affected. HOWEVER, occasionally they do react badly to a nasty strain and it can kill them (chickens are the first to die and by comparison Geese are strong and will mostly survive).violet wrote:you don't have to sleep around to get an STI/SDTDreadedDr wrote:The list of death proportions a previous poster posted(?) is flawed as many of those those items are not mutually exclusive.
So, what is likely to get you? (I'm going to guess your western, an adult and vaccinated).
Diahorrea/Stomach Bug ( ) - Don't even bother trying to figure out where you got it from, when you do you will feel even sicker thinking about it. Hydrate and invest in expensive toilet paper.
If you're sleeping around ( ) - STI will likely get you at some point, but it is treatable (not the best advice...). You must tell the girl!! These can go unnoticed in females and can cause serious problems (I would expect this to be exacerbated in Cambodia).
Skin Infections ( )- No biggie with right treatment.
Dengue ( ) - Always a real chance to put you in hospital. No treatment but patience required.
Flu ( ) - Bird flu kicking around at the moment (H1N1). All live chicken markets are tested weekly in PP - that problem ain't going anywhere.
OTHERWISE Alcohol, Drugs and the Road should fill anything I missed.
No you don't, but it would place you in the high risk category. Statistically I would guess the odds are in your favor not to be infected from one encounter as whatever the prevalence rate is in Cambodia (% infected) would have to be lower than 50%. It's a lucky dip I guess..Alternatively his one-and-only may have gotten a bit lonely.
bird flu still a 'thing'? what happened to swine flu?
Flu A: Infects mammals (humans) and birds and is the most most severe form of influenza. There are many types of Flu A, and only a few cause significant disease (H1N1 being the worst. aka Spanish Flu which killed 5% of worlds population 50-100 million people). The ones we catch are thankfully less dangerous, but this is in part to a world wide concerted effort with the vaccines to target the bad ones. They mutate easily which means our immune system doesn't recognize them and any previous immunity is useless due this small variation in their genetic code.
Flu B: Infects Humans (and oddly seals...) only. You develop immunity against it at a young age and is basically harmless. The combined efforts of everyones human immune system keeps this virus at bay. Effectively natural herd immunity. The reason our immune system can beat it is because we don't live in close contact with seals, and the virus can only mutate inside another organism (such as bird or pig).
Flu C: The most harmless. Pigs harbor this one, and occasionally pass to humans who work with them but overall very mild.
So what happened to the Swine Flu:
The pigs ate bird shit that was loaded with a nasty virus (type A - infects humans and pigs). Inside the pigs stomach the birds nasty Flu A virus genetically combined with the pig's relevantly harmless Flu C virus. What was born was once again a mutated version of H1N1 (Spanish Flu), the worse most destructive pathogen to mankind. What made it worse is that this mutation of H1N1 (slightly different to Spanish Flu version) meant it could bypass our immune system and now we have a deadly virus strain (makes your immune system go crazy) that is capable of infecting pigs (mammals) and making them sick. If it can infect and affect pigs (normally they don't get the flu), then humans are not to biologically dissimilar to the pig (both mammals, same sized lungs, heart etc.). So there was a very real risk that this highly infectious and potentially deadly viral strain could infect humans, which we wold then pass onto other humans, and our typical seasonal flu would have a new partner in crime. We knew that if we got this virus we would have an over-reactive immune system and this is would kill us...our own immune system in a fatal melt down. So to eliminate the problem, pigs were tested, and if positive either killed (I don't remember that though) or isolated from each other and humans. Basically for infectious disease to exist it needs a circle of life to host it and by removing the small number of pigs, the cycle was broken. In the end, 5 people died (3 of which had underlying causes), WHO took a sigh of relief and the uninformed majority of the world thought it was over-hyped and lived happily ever after. The end.
Probs heaps of inaccuracies...might want to check it over...sorry if not clear...I need a beer
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Apart from chronic conditions, stds or self inflicted problems such as alcholism or drug addiction there is no real reason why the average expat, not the panhandlers, shouldn't be in perfect health here. The markets are full of a cornucopia of fruit and veg that cure all known diseases and restore health overnight if one believes all those internet pop up ads. Every freaking exotic fruit they reference is here - papaya, starfruit, dragonfruit you name it.
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Please tell me which fruit(s) will cure the zika/dengue/chikungunya/influenza virus that I am currently suffering from. I won't know which until after the holiday, so maybe I'll just have the missus pick up all the good ones you recommend.Just Robbed wrote:Apart from chronic conditions, stds or self inflicted problems such as alcholism or drug addiction there is no real reason why the average expat, not the panhandlers, shouldn't be in perfect health here. The markets are full of a cornucopia of fruit and veg that cure all known diseases and restore health overnight if one believes all those internet pop up ads. Every freaking exotic fruit they reference is here - papaya, starfruit, dragonfruit you name it.
Ps: One country's exotic is another's run of the mill.
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Chkwoot - can you actually read?
I said if one believes internet pop up ads.
Have you no sense of humour or are you being deliberately dumb?
I said if one believes internet pop up ads.
Have you no sense of humour or are you being deliberately dumb?
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