Disease called "odsvay" or "otsvai"

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Disease called "odsvay" or "otsvai"

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Does anyone have a translation for what this pox is - odsvay? Looks like chicken pox but it's not. Obviously a Herpes genus but not varicella, gave me and the boy painful red weals, but only on the hands and feet. Apart from that unlucky fuck who had them all over his taint, but his didn't seem to be so bad. Forms blisters, some of them quite big, not all of them blister. Massive fever beforehand, hot sweaty, bad throat.
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You mean 'roak svay'?
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Is this what happens to the locals when they run out off green mangos?
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Re: Disease called "odsvay" or "otsvai"

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cptrelentless wrote: Apart from that unlucky fuck who had them all over his taint, but his didn't seem to be so bad.
I would consider anything on my taint (except a few hairs maybe) to be very horrible and cause for unrestricted panic.

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អុតស្វាយ


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Re: Disease called "odsvay" or "otsvai"

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A friend of mine got chicken pox recently and they called that "otsvai".
Red blistery spots on hands and feet plus fever sounds more like secondary syphilis...
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Syphilis/P ... omspg.aspx


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prahkeitouj wrote:អុតស្វាយ


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= chickenpox
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Hmm, thanks for that, although I initially suspected it was chicken pox the lack of any real itching and limited body coverage made me doubt. Guess they don't include the vaccine as part of their program here.
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sounds like you got hand foot and mouth virus.

takes a while but goes away by it's self.
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It's called as "otsvai".
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