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...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 Bangkok to comfort her. Pranee kissed and held her through the last night of her life, and Sakuntala was cremated two days later. Doctors there never diagnosed the child with bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sickness Spreads | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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