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Xinhua News Agency December 25, 2014 12:30am
More than 160 villagers infected with HIV in northwest Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The number of villagers tested positive for HIV in a remote Roka commune in northwest Cambodia's Battambang province has exceeded 160, a local official confirmed Thursday.
Roka commune's deputy chief Soeum Chhom said three villages in the commune have been hit by the outbreak, which officials have pinned blame on an unlicensed doctor, Yem Chrin, who allegedly used unsterilized needles and reused syringes on patients. "In Roka village, 143 people tested positive for HIV, in Ambeng Thnge village, more than 20 tested positive, and in Tahen Muoy village, two children tested positive," he told Xinhua over telephone...
Xinhua News Agency December 25, 2014 12:30am
More than 160 villagers infected with HIV in northwest Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The number of villagers tested positive for HIV in a remote Roka commune in northwest Cambodia's Battambang province has exceeded 160, a local official confirmed Thursday.
Roka commune's deputy chief Soeum Chhom said three villages in the commune have been hit by the outbreak, which officials have pinned blame on an unlicensed doctor, Yem Chrin, who allegedly used unsterilized needles and reused syringes on patients. "In Roka village, 143 people tested positive for HIV, in Ambeng Thnge village, more than 20 tested positive, and in Tahen Muoy village, two children tested positive," he told Xinhua over telephone...
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