My goodness but time flies, we are getting ready for
the end of the year in a few months. I personally cannot wait for the year to
end so we can see where this virus is taking us. Talk to a Tourist-guy today
and he says that by talking to authorities, they say everything is on hold till
Jan’21. So we will wait. In the meantime, life goes on and we are just living in
the abundance of the Lord every day.
I had a really strange day today. Went out to see a girl
that has really bad mental issues plus a horrible time here in Siem Reap plus
plus plus and we are helping her to get back to her homeland. Talk to her “” boyfriend””
and her mum gives me a clearer picture of the hell this girl had gone through.
I will join them to Phnom Pehn on Wednesday to make sure she gets on a flight
back home, from there on we just need to pray she makes all the lay-overs.
Please pray with us for this young girl’s safe travels and for the family to
deal with these issues back home.
While there I met the boyfriend that is from Moldova
and some of his friends from Bahrain and England, here is a Boer meeting these
guys from all over the world. My goodness never in my life, I would think that
I will ever meet people from these places. Pastor Ivor, I was thinking of you
this morning as you always wanted to start work under the expats in Siem
Reap. It is a huge need to minister to these guys, as they are ruff as guts. We
have no idea what is happening in the dark of the night in this place. Talking
to these guys gives me a glimpse in their cynical lives. I can understand that
people coming here and lose themselves in this culture of parties, alcohol, and
drugs. Life is so much more than this but some people are captured on this web.
Please pray for Toinette as she needs to do a prenatal
on a local girl tomorrow. The girl is overdue already and the hospital asked
her to wait another 5 days. The ultrasound shows that the umbilical cord is
wrapped around the baby’s neck. So that is not good. A decision needs to be made for
her to get a possible c-section. Pray for wisdom as Toinette will assist them.
Chikungunya is still ravaging around the country. My
poor neighbor and mechanic have it as well. Everywhere you go people are saying
that they contract it. Toinette is still struggling with a very painful neck
and for me, my arthritis seems 100% worse.
At least 100 people in Prek Russey
commune’s Peam Sdey village in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district have sought
medical assistance since Saturday and are suspected of being infected with the
chikungunya disease, said Kandal provincial Department of Health director Kuy
Bunthoeun.
Bunthoeun said 12 health workers were sent
to the village where they would be on standby to provide treatment to infected
villagers. Peam Sdey is located in a remote area bordering Prey Veng province,
far from health centres, while the road to the village is difficult to travel
on due to recent flooding. Authorities have arranged for those suspected of
having chikungunya to stay in a pagoda hall.
Bunthoeun said: “I want to confirm that
these are cases of suspected illnesses. We cannot say if it’s chikungunya
because we did not take samples to test. “Since Saturday night, there have been
14 people, and this Sunday morning, another one, who we have required to
undergo treatment. Some others were just suspected to have it, and some had a
rash, but it has healed.”
In a Ministry of Health press release
published on Sunday, spokesperson Or Vandine said that since the outbreak of
chikungunya in almost all provinces in August, there have been a total of 5,998
suspected cases. Chikungunya continues to spread in some areas, while others
that have experienced outbreaks have remained calm and manageable. Among the
nearly 6,000 suspected cases reported through dengue surveillance systems
nationwide, more than 80 per cent were from Siem Reap, Takeo and Preah Vihear
provinces.
Statistics showed that 54 per cent of the
cases involved adults, 31 per cent involved children over five and 15 per cent
involved children under five. Out of all the patients suspected of having
chikungunya, 96 per cent have been cured while the remaining four per cent are
receiving treatment at public hospitals.
Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng advised
people to exercise caution and eliminate all mosquito shelters around their
homes. He also suggested people sleep in mosquito nets and wear clothes which
cover the skin. Mosquitoes thrive during the rainy season and diseases can
spread easily if people don’t take precautions, he said. Chikungunya symptoms
occur two to three days after someone is bitten by a female Aedes aegypti
mosquito. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chikungunya-outbreak-suspected-kandal
We are totally blessed with the absolute minimum cases
of Covid-19. There is one case now after a long time of none and it’s all imported
cases. Read a real interesting article about a study that Dengue may provide
some immunity against COVID-19. So just maybe that is a bit of light for us
here in Asia as Dengue season is here as well.
A new study that analyzed the coronavirus
outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past
outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposure to the mosquito-transmitted
illness may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19.
The not yet published study led by Miguel
Nicolelis, a professor at Duke University, and shared exclusively with Reuters,
compared the geographic distribution of coronavirus cases with the spread of
dengue in 2019 and 2020.
Places with lower coronavirus infection
rates and slower case growth were locations that had suffered intense dengue
outbreaks this year or last, Nicolelis found. "This striking finding
raises the intriguing possibility of an immunological cross-reactivity between
dengue's Flavivirus serotypes and SARS-CoV-2," the study said, referring
to dengue virus antibodies and the novel coronavirus. "If proven correct,
this hypothesis could mean that dengue infection or immunization with an
efficacious and safe dengue vaccine could produce some level of immunological
protection" against the coronavirus, it added.
Nicolelis told Reuters the results are
particularly interesting because previous studies have shown that people with
dengue antibodies in their blood can test falsely positive for COVID-19
antibodies even if they have never been infected by the coronavirus. "This
indicates that there is an immunological interaction between two viruses that
nobody could have expected, because the two viruses are from completely
different families," Nicolelis said, adding that further studies are
needed to prove the connection.
Ok enough of this. May God bless you in the week ahead
and may He bless you wherever and whatever you do. Remember that God is in
everything and that He is always willing to help. Remember that he helped us by
nailing His Son on a cross for us so that we can have everlasting life. Jesus
is real.
Love
Rossouw-clan
1 comment:
Mordegai, Indeed, there is need everywhere and the expats in SR have been described as the "least reached people group" in the city. Thank you for all you see to do as you listen to God's prompting to reach out to those in need.
Praying for complete healing for you & Twans.
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