LTO wrote:
I'd also be interested in the results of a proper medical investigation into the infections themselves. If he really was using unsterilized needles willynilly, passing around every bodies diseases to one another, then there should be multiple infections, not just HIV, and not just one strain of HIV. There should be, at the very least, various types of Hepatitis infections too. And the HIV would likely be from more than one strain. If it's only HIV, all from one strain, that would strongly indicate a single source, and as he's apparently been infecting people over an extended period of time, that would be very suspicious.

An unlicensed medical practitioner who infected more than 100 villagers in north-west Cambodia with HIV by reusing unclean needles went on trial on Tuesday, facing three charges including murder, a defence lawyer said.

Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the world, has inadequate health care facilities, especially in rural areas, where villagers often have no recourse but to depend on unlicensed medical practitioners who have trained themselves to treat minor ailments and to give injections.

Yem Chhrin, 53, was one such practitioner. Some villagers said he had a good reputation for his years of dedicated service to the village by providing treatment even though he lacked formal training or certification.

“Whether it was day or night, whether the patient had money to pay for the treatment or not, Yem Chhrin treated them regardless. I think he was a good neighbor,” said Chay Savorn, a 60-year-old woman who received treatment from him and was later found to be HIV positive.

She said she decided not to join the police complaint by 120 people against Yem Chhrin, even though four other people in her family have been infected with HIV – her daughter, her mother, a three-year-old granddaughter and a 57-year-old sibling...

General Mackevili wrote:Hopefully they could prove he should have known that it would cause patients to get infected with HIV, a deadly virus.

Yem Chhrin’s wife, Nhoum Chenda, also urged the court to drop all charges against her husband, saying he never believed that the villagers were infected because of his actions.
“The HIV virus transmitted to those villagers must be from ... something else that we don’t know about right now,” she said by phone...