they have explained their anger to me.
cronyism, land grabs and preferment for government jobs.
election theft.

and of course Vietnam, no matter the logic or lack thereof on that score.

I know some of the youths on personal level. Smart and good kids. Some already cross over to Thailand to work as 3D workers, and others don't even know where their future lies. Cambodia is hopeless if you are not connected. Midgets on 4wd and cant even drive.

Vietnam plays a big part in this crime with the help of his lapdog. I will contribute my part when the time is right.

LTO wrote:

Sir_Quality_U_Feel wrote:

LTO wrote:As has been mentioned elsewhere, there is something very strange about this level of infection. The HIV infection rate for a single needle stick with HIV positive blood is less than a half of one percent (0.35%-0.45%). Somewhat higher for deep injury or visibly bloody needles. But the infection rate in this village is somewhere between 15%-20%. Something is really wrong here.

Source?

The ‘less than a half of one percent’ is a fairly oft quoted number based on a number of studies.
http://www.aidsmap.com/Risk-of-infection/page/1324549/
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases ... uries.html
http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/needlestick-injury

The 15%-20% number was just a quick calculation from the local population and infection figures given in the CD article.

Awesome, thank you.

Battambang, Cambodia - A third round of tests has confirmed that at least 90 villagers in a small rural community in northwest Cambodia have contracted HIV in an unexplained and panic-inducing mass infection.

Dr Didier Fontenille, director of the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, said that samples sent from Roka commune in Battambang province, where the unusually high number of infections were first detected this month, have tested positive for the virus.

"It has been confirmed three times by different techniques. Around 90 [people] have tested positive," Fontenille said.

More samples taken from residents in the area will be tested on Saturday, he said.

On Saturday afternoon, members of a parliamentary commission on public health attempted to address the concerns of the villagers in the northwest of the country.

Commission chairwoman Ke Sovannroth told the assembled villagers that they must not lose hope and the government was working to help them with access to HIV testing and anti-retroviral treatment.

Veat Vorn, 53, whose 11-year-old son was diagnosed with HIV earlier this month, was among the crowd.

"First he cried a lot. But after we consoled him he stopped," she said, adding that her son, fearing he would be shunned by his friends, was afraid to go to school after his test returned positive.

Unreliable testing

Officials from Cambodia's National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD said this week that 106 villagers, including elderly people and 19 children under the age of 15, had tested positive for HIV in the Roka area alone, a community of about 9,000 rural farmers.

As news of the infections spread and suspicion falling on a local health provider who treated residents over several years, alarm set it and local villagers flocked to health centres to be tested for the virus.

Somewhat complicating the situation, HE, Cambodia's prime minister, said on Thursday in a speech that he did not believe that so many had been infected with HIV, speculating that unreliable testing was likely to blame.

"It is not that we do not believe in our doctors and our equipment, but it is hard to believe," he said.

"I do not believe it."

Noting the unusual nature of such a large number of HIV cases in a small area, Pasteur Institute's Fontenille said now that the cases had been confirmed, what needed to be determined was when the infections actually occurred.

Meanwhile, UNAIDS, the UN programme on HIV/AIDS, says it has joined Cambodia's Ministry of Health to conduct a full epidemiological investigation in the affected community.

"UNAIDS is working with the authorities to ensure that anyone who may have been affected has access to essential HIV treatment, care and support services," UNAIDS said in a statement.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-paci ... 84491.html

I do not grasp how so many could have been infected by simply reusing needles.

it must have been going on for many years, with very few needles.

frank lee bent wrote:I do not grasp how so many could have been infected by simply reusing needles.

it must have been going on for many years, with very few needles.

Considering they use an IV drip for everything from a stubbed toe to cancer, it's not that unbelievable.

Evil lazy cocksucker wouldn't even bleach his works. There's something really fishy about the transmission rate though. More here: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/m ... e-hiv-case

"Considering they use an IV drip for everything from a stubbed toe to cancer, it's not that unbelievable."
so you are suggesting there was some backflow of blood back into the IV rig?

which was then refilled with homebrew saline in his kitchen?

that scenario could give these kind of infection rates i suppose. IDK having no experience in the field- but this is really atypical-
seems a hell of a concentrated zone of infection, and as HE mentioned- across a wide age span.

how about the other villages he operated in?

the article above has some credible seeming stats and citations that cast extreme doubt on this vector.

it does not add up at all.