Category: Daily Life in Cambodia

Dengue Fever

There is rising concern about an increase in infections of dengue fever in several provinces, including Phnom Penh. Large-scale outbreaks of dengue fever occur in Cambodia about every five years. The last was in 2019 so there is a fear that this is the beginning of a build-up that will peak in 2024. Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito which is a daytime mosquito.

So good but so many!

This is the mango season and this year they are wonderful–and plentiful! Too plentiful. People have so many mangoes that they don’t know what to do with them. That’s lucky for me because many of them are given to me and I love them! Today I was at an office and in their parking lot there were six beautiful mangoes that had fallen and were just left there. I hated to see so many luscious mangoes go to waste!

Typical for Phnom Penh

Here is a typical scene–at least, not an unusual scene–on a major six-lane street in Phnom Penh at 4:00 PM. Two cars in the left-hand lanes and one car in the right hand lanes are backing up across traffic and blocking the street in both directions. No one thinks a thing about it….