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Article: Food poisoning deaths decline by almost half in 2006
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 14, 2007
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Food poisoning deaths decline by almost half in 2006
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Food poisoning claimed 196 lives in
China last year, a decline of 48.56 percent over the previous year,
China's Ministry of Health told Xinhua on Wednesday.
China's hospitals and other medical facilities at all levels
treated 18,063 people for food poisoning in 2006.
There were 17 food poisoning incidents involving 100 people or
more, ...