bittermelon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:33 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:58 pm I suffer from what I've simply decided to call Cambodia Fever. I rarely used to get sick back home but since living here, every three or four months or so I'll come down with a general sickness. Never anything too serious, headaches, cough, cold, sore throat etc and just generally feeling shit for a few days, then its gone again.

I've no idea where it comes from but it's been a common and frequent event for the few years I've been living here.

Totally know what you're talking about. I've wondered about pesticides on food, pesticides sprayed in my room, viruses that I have no immunity to and air-pollution. Last time i was wondering about this I think I got told to harden up by one of the more prolific posters, but I guess I'm not the only one who gets sick more in Pp than back home and wonders if anything can be done about it

talltuktuk wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:18 pm Think about all the bacteria from the juice that flows out of the back of a garbage truck every time they stop, the bacteria in the garbage that’s thrown on the ground everywhere, the leaking/overflowing/improperly built sewage infrastructure.. all that bacteria gets mixed with the dust and kicked up into the air by every passing car and motorbike. Then we breath it in. Then there’s the people who shit and wash their ass with water from a bucket, don’t wash their hands, then touch things or serve food. The “if it’s wet it’s clean” mentality does nothing to address the spread of bacteria and viruses that people are inundated with on a daily basis here.