Friday, 13 July 2012

Potent form of common child illness deadly in Asia



Tran Nam Trung adjusts a tube of the respirator attached to his son Tran Minh Giang who has been hospitalized for the past seven months at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, July 12, 2012. The 20-month-old boy fell victim to a particularly menacing form of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed hundreds of young children across Asia recently. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh) Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a disease that in Asia is as common as chicken pox, and usually about as severe.








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