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Article: 2nd Ld-Writethru: 18 children die of hand-foot-mouth disease in China
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 27, 2009
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2nd Ld-Writethru: 18 children die of hand-foot-mouth disease in
China
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Hand-foot-mouth disease has claimed
the lives of 18 Chinese children so far this year, as the disease
has spread across the country, the Ministry of Health said Friday.
The ministry recorded 41,846 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease in
30 provinces and regions, except in Tibet, in the past three months,
ministry spokesman Deng Haihua said.
About 94 percent of the patients were children under five years
old, 75 percent were affected by the virus EV71, and 94 suffered
severe symptoms, Deng told a press conference in Beijing.
Compared with the figures last year, the outbreak of the disease ...