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Article: Five babies die of hand-foot-mouth disease in east China city
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 28, 2009
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Five babies die of hand-foot-mouth disease in east China city
JINAN, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Hand-foot-mouth disease(HFMD) claimed
the lives of five babies in a week in Heze City in east China's
Shandong Province, local authorities said Saturday.
A baby boy surnamed Liu fell ill Tuesday and died at 07:31 p.m.
Thursday at the Central Hospital of Shanxian County. Another baby
boy was sick on Monday and died at 10:12 a.m. Friday at the Heze
Hospital for Infectious Diseases, the Shandong Provincial Health
Department said.
Three other deaths in Heze included a seven-month-old boy, a 15-
month-old boy, and a one-year-old girl between Sunday and Wednesday.
Heze city reported 1,734 HFMD cases ...