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Article: 1st LD: Disease outbreak in worst-hit China city in decline: health ministry
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 8, 2008
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1st LD: Disease outbreak in worst-hit China city in decline:
health ministry
BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The incidence of hand-foot-mouth
disease (HFMD) in the worst-hit Chinese city was on decline, with
discharged patients outnumbering those checking in to hospitals for
the first time, China's health ministry said on Friday.
The ministry said on its website that the majority of the serious
cases had recovered with no fatalities for seven consecutive days in
Fuyang in east China's Anhui Province, which had reported the
initial outbreak and 22 deaths out of the 32 nationwide.
On Wednesday, Fuyang reported 269 new cases of HFMD, of whom 249
were hospitalized, the ministry said. In ...