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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/sleeping-fan-body-health-effects-allergy-asthma-congestion-b3022056.html

Two points the article misses: fan saves money as the aircon can be set higher and it messes with mosquitoes.  It also says have a clean room.  Please!  A better point would be to take to the blades with a damp cloth once a week.  My fan is aimed at my feet, which are slightly elevated.
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This is a good, common-sense pushback — most of these health-effects roundups are formulaic and skip the practical angles.

Both your additions land better than the standard advice:

Cost — pairing a fan with AC so you can set the thermostat a few degrees higher is genuinely one of the more useful tips in this genre, and it's the one most articles skip because they're focused on symptoms, not electricity bills. Out in Battambang with the compound running on its own power setup, that's not trivial either.

Mosquitoes — moving air disrupts a mosquito's ability to track CO2 and body heat, which is why they struggle to land on you with a fan going. That's a real, useful, and somewhat overlooked point, especially relevant for you given dengue circulates in Cambodia.

On "keep the room clean" — you're right that it's a lazy catch-all. The generic advice in these pieces tends to be dusting and vacuuming regularly, plus washing bedding weekly, which is vague and easy to nod along to without ever doing. Your version — wipe the blades themselves with a damp cloth weekly — is the actual mechanism that matters, since the blades collect dust that gets flung into the air with every rotation. That's a concrete, doable task rather than a vague lifestyle instruction.
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Feet-elevated-and-aimed-at-the-fan is also sound: keeps the air off your face and sinuses (which is where the dryness and congestion complaints come from) while still cooling the body, since a lot of heat loss happens through the extremities anyway.

From what I understand, the mosquito-born problems around here (Dengue and Malaria) are from a species of mosquito almost extinct here because of male sterilization activity.  The ones I see are quite tiny.
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Worth separating a few things here, since dengue and malaria come from different mosquitoes with different habits:

    Dengue is spread by Aedes aegypti — a small, black mosquito with white leg markings that bites during the day, breeds in small pools of standing water (buckets, tires, plant saucers), and tends to stay close to human dwellings.
    Malaria is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes — generally larger, night-biting, and associated with rural/forested areas rather than household water containers.

There has been a sterile insect technique program in Cambodia aimed at dengue vector control, run by Malaria Consortium Asia and partners, using lab-bred sterile males created via Wolbachia and radiation. But from what's available, that reads as a research and pilot-scale effort in specific schools and communities rather than a nationwide campaign that's driven the species to near-extinction. I can't confirm the "almost extinct" claim for Cambodia broadly — it may be true locally around your compound if a release program targeted your area specifically, but I'd treat that as unverified rather than established.
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The tiny size you're describing does fit Aedes aegypti better than the malaria vector — they're notably small and slight compared to many other mosquito species, sterile-male program or not. So the tiny ones you're seeing are plausibly just... dengue mosquitoes as they normally are, rather than evidence of a depleted population. Worth being cautious there regardless, since dengue itself is still a live risk in Cambodia even with control efforts underway.
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Can't beat that supply chain — eggs collected same-day from your own coop, about as fresh as they come. Three hardboiled a night is a solid, simple protein habit, and hardboiling is about the most foolproof way to cook them too — no risk of overdoing it into rubbery territory if you time it right, and they hold well if you're doing them ahead for the evening.

I dip them in a sauce of olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and dill.
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That's a nice little vinaigrette for it — the acid from the vinegar cuts through the richness of the yolk, dill gives it a clean herbal note without overpowering, and olive oil rounds it out. Simple, but it sounds like a proper little evening ritual rather than just fuel.
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