Each monsoon season, Southeast Asia enters a familiar reckoning — standing water, rising heat, and the diseases that follow. This year, that reckoning has arrived with unusual force: dengue fever is claiming lives across Cambodia and Laos while hand, foot and mouth disease is spreading through Vietnam's children at two and a half times last year's pace, together posing a question the region has long struggled to answer — how do you prepare for the predictable when the predictable keeps changing?
Dengue and HFMD surge across Mekong region as monsoon season intensifies
At least 72 dengue deaths reported in Cambodia; thousands hospitalized across the region; children particularly vulnerable to HFMD and dengue infections.