Article: Two more infants die of hand-foot-mouth disease in east China

Two more infants die of hand-foot-mouth disease in east China

JINAN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Two more Chinese infants died from hand-foot-mouth disease Thursday, bringing the death toll from the outbreak in Shandong Province this year to 11, the local health authority said Friday.

The latest victims were a girl surnamed Liu and a boy surnamed Chen, who died in Heze City. Both of them were a year old, according to the provincial health administration.

No more information was available.

Heze has registered nine deaths from the disease in the outbreak and Jining City two this year. The first victim was a 20-month boy who died in Heze ...

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