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Article: Central China province reports 340 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease
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- May 2, 2008
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Central China province reports 340 cases of hand-foot-mouth
disease
WUHAN, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Hubei Province has seen
340 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease this year, but no deaths
reported, local health authorities said on Friday.
At least five cases were caused by an intestinal virus known as
enterovirus 71, or EV71, which has left 21 children dead and 2,946
ill in Fuyang City, in neighboring Anhui Province, since early
March.
Most of the cases in Hubei were isolated, except for 39 children
aged three and four reported at three kindergartens in Guanghua
district, Qianjiang City since April 29, the Provincial Health
Department said in a statement.
Experts from the ...