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Hubei Reports 340 Cases of Hand-foot-mouth Disease

Author: Trisa Wang Author Ranking Blue | Posted: 03-05-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 11 | Rating:  (56) Article Popularity - Blue (?) Got a Question? Ask.
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 CentralChina's Hubei Province has seen 340 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease this year, but no deaths reported, local health authorities said on Friday.
At least five cases were caused by an intestinal virus known as enterovirus 71, or EV71, which has left 21 children dead and 2,946 ill in Fuyang City, in neighboring Anhui Province, since early March.
Most of the cases in Hubei were isolated, except for 39 children aged three and four reported at three kindergartens in Guanghua district, Qianjiang City since April 29, the Provincial Health Department said in a statement.
Experts from the provincial disease control center collected and tested samples from five children on Thursday morning, determining that they had been infected with EV71, it said.

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But no figures were provided on the total number of children in the city and the province at large have been infected with EV71.
According to the statement, 33 children in Qianjiang have recovered or are recovering, and six are being treated as outpatients.
No new cases of hand-foot-mouth disease have been reported in Hubei since April 30, it said, and local health authorities have been ordered to make daily reports on the disease.
"Experts from the provincial disease control center are still in Qianjiang to guide the disease control work," the statement said.
Hand-foot-mouth disease, also known as cox sackievirus infection, is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It often begins with a sore throat.

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