Cambodia and the West’s Common Enemy: Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease affecting the lungs and causing fever, hemoptysis, night sweats, and weight loss, has ravaged Southeast Asia for decades. According to the World Health Organization, the region contains one third of the world’s TB cases. TB has threatened Vietnam, where HIV and malaria attract more attention from humanitarians and the news media, as well as Myanmar, which has a TB prevalence three times higher than the world’s average. Cambodia, a country rarely considered in Western analyses since the Vietnam War, is suffering from TB in silence.
Austin Bodetti
