Flexxman wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 7:52 pm I feel a bit like I am high-jacking this thread but to add to the wide range of possible causes, I just read that a hookworm infection in rare cases also can lead to heart failure. You know, its larvae will bore through the skin of your feet or enter through some opening or wound when you are walking barefoot on infested ground.

https://soundhealthsolution.com/human-hookworm/ -
Human Hookworm: Causes, Types, Diagnosis, Symptoms, Treatment, & Prevention

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/6/13-1770_article -
High Prevalence of Ancylostoma ceylanicum Hookworm Infections in Humans, Cambodia, 2012

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2863361/ -
Cardiac Involvement with Parasitic Infections

Also, all necessary counter measures for prevention show that the possibility for such an infection is very present in Cambodia:

- Wearing shoes while walking outdoors, especially in places where there are faeces in the soil.
- Drink safe and purified water.
- The food has to be cleaned and cooked before eating.
- Make a habit of properly washing hands.
- Sanitation and cleanliness should be adopted in places having chances of hookworm infection
- Preventive treatment on high-risk groups as children, pregnant women, lactating women and working men at risk can be practised.
- Public health education regarding Hookworm is also important to prevent it.
- Deworm pets including cats and dogs at home.
- Defecation in the open should be strictly prohibited. Toilets should be built.
- Untreated human excreta or raw sewage should not be used as fertilizer for agriculture purpose.

Kammekor wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 7:30 am
You body can become overheated when toy exercise mid day.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 10:34 am

Kammekor wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 7:30 am
You body can become overheated when toy exercise mid day.

I want to know more about this.

RickyBobby wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 7:41 am If they are drug related, it kind of falls into the Darwin awards category.

You seriously believe most foreign deaths in Cambodia are caused by tropical deseases?

I can come up with a 100 more diseases which are potential fatal. For instance amoebas can create liver abscesses and abscesses in the brain which are potentially fatal. Dengue fever can become hemorrhagic. You body can become overheated when toy exercise mid day. Japanese Encyphalitis. Hepatitis C. And there's a 1000 other possible tropical diseaess to wipe us out.

But all those diseases evolve over time, and take weeks, months or even years to be fatal. Yet most tourists dying in Cambodia have been here a few days, or a few weeks, and they never ran around the countryside bare foot, they have been in Phnom Penh on their bar stool or God knows where else.

I am sure the things you describe happen, but I also know those are extremely rare events. And young (healthy?) foreigners dying in PP is not rare .

PIEMAN wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 11:39 am I had my blood tested for 3 symptoms when I had a staph infection,surely the western embassies should pay for there dead subjects bloods to be tested after all it cast me 15 bucks,it would set families mind at rest and give the forum some idea why so many guys are checking out early,I abuse alcohol and have all my adult life,but drugs here are bloody dangerous,cut with dangerous shit.

Flexxman wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 1:32 pm

You seriously believe most foreign deaths in Cambodia are caused by tropical deseases?

I can come up with a 100 more diseases which are potential fatal. For instance amoebas can create liver abscesses and abscesses in the brain which are potentially fatal. Dengue fever can become hemorrhagic. You body can become overheated when toy exercise mid day. Japanese Encyphalitis. Hepatitis C. And there's a 1000 other possible tropical diseaess to wipe us out.

But all those diseases evolve over time, and take weeks, months or even years to be fatal. Yet most tourists dying in Cambodia have been here a few days, or a few weeks, and they never ran around the countryside bare foot, they have been in Phnom Penh on their bar stool or God knows where else.

I am sure the things you describe happen, but I also know those are extremely rare events. And young (healthy?) foreigners dying in PP is not rare .

Wow, reading and understanding what is written is not really your forte, is it? Nowhere I stated any numbers or that this would be a main factor. It is just that heart failure or the Organic Heart Disease quoted as cause can have a multitude of possible underlying causes and contributing factors. I mentioned one that is a bit unusual just to underscore the fact that although many here seem to be sure that heart attack + young = always and ever drugs-related, it just isn't. There are always too many unknowns to make even an educated guess. I could also have offered another 100 possible causes, that was the crux of the remark. And gradually detoriating health in situations of OHD I also mentioned previously as factor showing that if drugs were involved, it would be related to long-term use. And you conveniently side-step that, even using it to try to cement your own argument? Tell me what is that meme again making the sound of whooooosh?