Knees Needed - Still - Dengue Fever in SE Asia
I hope you will "Take a Missions Moment and pray for S.E. Asia and our friends Roland and Kieng Heck in Cambodia, who ask for prayer specifically in regards to dengue fever in their nation.
Dengue fever is a flu-like illness spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often fatal, complication of dengue fever.
Pray for the stop of the spread of "Dengue Fever". It has hit hard in S.E. Asia: These are figures in June for the following area. It has not peaked out yet as they have just started their rainy season.
11,000 cases and 14 deaths in Thailand
20,000 cases and 48 deaths in Malaysia
68,000 cases and 748 deaths in Indonesia
Dengue affects 50 million people per year. There is no vaccine or treatment. It involves high fever, debilitating lethargy and joint pain. That is why it is called break bone fever.
A dengue epidemic last year nearly put a Cambodian Hospital out of business. Some 7,500 sufferers of the life-threatening fever sought help at Kantha Bopha. Many required emergency blood transfusions, and each one had to undergo blood tests--at $50 each. At the end of 1998, Richner was left with a $2 million budgetary shortfall. What to do? A talented cellist and a celebrated comic musician in Switzerland, Beat Richner, 53-year-old Swiss pediatrician returned there to make media appeals and to play in charity concerts. The short trip generated enough cash to save the hospital. Richner takes a number of fundraising tours each year, but cannot be away too long. "They need me here, but if I have no money, what will I do?"
The Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals in Cambodia report that in April 07 they hospitalized 1200 severe Dengue cases. In May 07 it jumped to 3200 severe cases. The first week in June 07 there were 1254 severe Dengue cases. They report the mortality rate of dengue cases in their hospitals at 1.2%.
When our daughter Jamie had dengue fever we were concerned for her life as five other deaths were reported in the Sidapet area of Madras where we lived. Very high temperatures, raging fever, bleeding from the nose and ears and hair came out in handfuls but after a month or so she recovered and was well. She can tell you first hand how terrible the experience was. There are, I believe, three or more strains of dengue fever. A person could get it again (even though they may become immune to one strain). Fasting and prayer were an important part of the recovery.
"Every child should have a right to the best possible treatment. Instead, [international bodies] promote a policy of poor medicine for poor people in poor countries." "We should not treat poor people like this. It is just like the Titanic, where they blocked the exits of the third-class passengers so that the first-class passengers could save themselves."
We do well in saving ourselves. It is a lost world needing Jesus, and without hope and healing they may not be saved. Think about it?
Dengue fever is a flu-like illness spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often fatal, complication of dengue fever.
Pray for the stop of the spread of "Dengue Fever". It has hit hard in S.E. Asia: These are figures in June for the following area. It has not peaked out yet as they have just started their rainy season.
11,000 cases and 14 deaths in Thailand
20,000 cases and 48 deaths in Malaysia
68,000 cases and 748 deaths in Indonesia
Dengue affects 50 million people per year. There is no vaccine or treatment. It involves high fever, debilitating lethargy and joint pain. That is why it is called break bone fever.
A dengue epidemic last year nearly put a Cambodian Hospital out of business. Some 7,500 sufferers of the life-threatening fever sought help at Kantha Bopha. Many required emergency blood transfusions, and each one had to undergo blood tests--at $50 each. At the end of 1998, Richner was left with a $2 million budgetary shortfall. What to do? A talented cellist and a celebrated comic musician in Switzerland, Beat Richner, 53-year-old Swiss pediatrician returned there to make media appeals and to play in charity concerts. The short trip generated enough cash to save the hospital. Richner takes a number of fundraising tours each year, but cannot be away too long. "They need me here, but if I have no money, what will I do?"
The Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals in Cambodia report that in April 07 they hospitalized 1200 severe Dengue cases. In May 07 it jumped to 3200 severe cases. The first week in June 07 there were 1254 severe Dengue cases. They report the mortality rate of dengue cases in their hospitals at 1.2%.
When our daughter Jamie had dengue fever we were concerned for her life as five other deaths were reported in the Sidapet area of Madras where we lived. Very high temperatures, raging fever, bleeding from the nose and ears and hair came out in handfuls but after a month or so she recovered and was well. She can tell you first hand how terrible the experience was. There are, I believe, three or more strains of dengue fever. A person could get it again (even though they may become immune to one strain). Fasting and prayer were an important part of the recovery.
"Every child should have a right to the best possible treatment. Instead, [international bodies] promote a policy of poor medicine for poor people in poor countries." "We should not treat poor people like this. It is just like the Titanic, where they blocked the exits of the third-class passengers so that the first-class passengers could save themselves."
We do well in saving ourselves. It is a lost world needing Jesus, and without hope and healing they may not be saved. Think about it?
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