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Article: China warns of longtime regional outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 20, 2009
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China warns of longtime regional outbreak of hand-foot-mouth
disease
BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Though the incidence and death
rates of hand-foot-mouth disease in China is normal compared with
overseas regions, the country's Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDCP) warns of long-term outbreaks among the large
populations in certain regions.
Zhang Jing, a CDCP official in charge of intestinal infection
prevention told Xinhua here Monday that the disease had been
"obviously spreading" since mid-March.
Zhang said as the country had been officially monitoring the
disease for about a year, they lacked historical figures to judge if
the epidemic was worse than previous years.
The ...