Word: somsak
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...Viet Tan identified its arrested members as Nguyen Quoc Quan, 54, of California and Leon Truong, 54, of Hawaii, both U.S. citizens born in Vietnam. French-Vietnamese writer and activist Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, 51, and ethnic-Vietnamese Thai national Khunmi Somsak, 58, were also arrested. The activists' respective embassies said they are now trying to find out what law they are accused of breaking...
...When Somsak Laemphakwan's chickens started dying in early August, he buried the corpses deep in the ground, hoping to halt the bird flu ravaging his village in northwest Thailand. It didn't work. Later that month, his 11-year-old niece Sakuntala Premphasri developed a stomachache and a high fever. When Somsak took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from...
...between humans, the world could be in for a health catastrophe approaching the "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 40 million people. But by week's end, health officials were relieved to discover that the disease had apparently failed to spread beyond the small family cluster. (Somsak's wife and six-year-old son were both quarantined in a provincial hospital with bird-flu symptoms, and his son has recovered.) The human-to-human transmission "is a nonsustained, inefficient, dead-end street," says Dr. Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza team. By the weekend, scientists...
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