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Child disease outbreak kills 18 in China's Henan
Tue Apr 7, 2009 7:41am EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Eighteen children from central China's Henan province have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that could claim more victims as its spreads in summer heat, state media reported on Tuesday.

The disease is a common childhood illness and rarely fatal, but it can cause fever, mouth sores and rashes with blisters, and severe forms of the virus can be deadly if not properly treated.

Henan is a rural province crowded with poor farmers, and is the center of China's latest outbreak of the disease, which killed 40 children nationwide last year, spreading alarm among parents who accused officials of indifference and cover-ups.

The dead were among nearly 20,000 cases of the disease confirmed in Henan, including 5,965 in hospital, as of Monday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

A province official warned worse may come.

"As the weather warms, cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in Henan may rise further," a vice governor of Henan, Song Xuantao, told Xinhua. "The situation facing prevention and treatment is very grim."

In late March, Minquan County in Henan said one child there had died from the disease. But a report on state radio accused officials there of covering up the problem, including more deaths.

Now Minquan has confirmed 8 children there have died from hand, foot and mouth disease, the Xinhua report said. They were among the 18 dead reported by Henan.

Earlier this year, a 17-month-old boy died of the disease in Lixin county in neighboring Anhui province.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Bill Tarrant)

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Toll in China disease outbreak rises to 31 children
Posted: 07 April 2009 1949 hrs

BEIJING: The death toll in China from a highly contagious disease which is especially dangerous for young children has risen to at least 31 so far this year, government and state media said Tuesday.

However, the figure includes only deaths of children in Henan province in the north and a single city in eastern Shandong province, suggesting the nationwide toll from hand, foot and mouth disease could be even higher.

State-run Xinhua news agency said that, as of Monday, 18 children had died in Henan, while the government of Heze city in Shandong said 13 had died in that city alone.

Health Minister Chen Zhu last week denied media reports that officials in Henan had tried to cover up the outbreak of the disease, which emerges early each year in China, by not reporting it to higher authorities.

The issue is a sensitive one after last year, when state media reported that foot-dragging by local officials had prevented the alarm being raised sooner.

The disease claimed an unusually high 128 lives in the first 11 months of last year.

There are numerous reports each year of Chinese local or provincial authorities covering up health and environmental threats to avoid being punished, sometimes exacerbating the problem.

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease include fever and sores. It can be fatal in children because their immune systems are less developed than adults'.

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HFMD kills 18 children in Henan, 195 severely ill

Eighteen children have died in a hand-foot-mouth disease outbreak in central China's Henan Province as of Monday with another 195 in severe conditions, health authorities said Tuesday.

The dead were among the 19,922 cases reported in Henan, where 5,965 children have been hospitalized, said Zhou Yong, a spokesman for Henan Provincial Health Administration.

Zhu said a total of 4,244 children had been discharged from hospitals after treatment.

Among the 18 deaths, eight were reported in Minquan County, the worst-hit region in Henan.

Song Xuantao, vice governor of Henan, warned that more cases may be reported with the rising temperature.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

In the neighboring Shandong Province, one more death was reported in Heze City where the contagious disease has claimed 13 lives so far this year.

Heze have reported 4,783 cases as of Monday, when 228 new ones were reported in just one day.

(Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2009)

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East China province reports first hand-foot-mouth death
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-08 18:58:41

HANGZHOU, April 8 (Xinhua) -- East China's Zhejiang Province reported Wednesday its first death from hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) this year.

A child in Cixi, Ningbo city died Sunday hours after he was admitted to hospital, said Zhang Leming, head of the Ningbo Municipal Health Bureau, Wednesday.

The child developed symptoms of fever and rashes on his hands and feet last Friday and was sent to a community clinic on Sunday.

Because of his severe illness, he was moved to the Cixi Municipal No. 2 People's Hospital and retransferred to the Cixi Municipal People's Hospital.

The health bureau provided no details of the child.

Ningbo city had reported 367 cases of infections from the highly contagious disease as of April 5, said Zhang.

China's central Henan Province and neighboring Shandong Province have reported at least 31 deaths from the hand-foot-mouth disease outbreak so far this year.

According to the Ministry of Health, HFMD can be caused by a host of intestinal viruses, but EV71 and the Coxsackievirus (Cox A16) were the most common.

HFMD usually starts with a slight fever followed by blisters and ulcers in the mouth and rashes on the hands and feet. Those with EV71 often show serious symptoms. It can also lead to meningitis, encephalitis, pulmonary edema and paralysis in some children. There is no vaccine.

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Hand-foot-mouth disease death toll rises to 17 in East China's Shandong Province
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-09 22:59:34

JINAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- One more child has died of hand-foot-mouth disease on Wednesday in east China's Shandong Province, bringing the death toll in the province to 17, the local health authority said Thursday.

As of Wednesday, Heze City, the worst-hit area of Shandong has reported 5,155 cases of the disease, among which 3,614 have recovered, said the provincial health administration.

The administration did not provide further details about the latest victim.

All the 17 cities of the province have reported the disease. Heze has registered 14 deaths from the disease in the outbreak, Jining City registered two and Liaocheng one, since the first victim, a 20-month boy, died in Heze on March 22.

More than 80 experts have been sent to Heze to reinforce the medical service.

In central China's Henan Province, 18 children have died in the disease outbreak as of Monday with another 195 in severe conditions, said Henan Provincial Health Administration Tuesday.

East China's Zhejiang Province reported Wednesday its first death from the disease this year. A child in Cixi, Ningbo city died Sunday hours after he was admitted to hospital, according to Ningbo Municipal Health Bureau.

The disease, which is more common in summer and autumn, is not included in the routine reporting list of infectious diseases in China.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

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Toll in China disease outbreak rises to 50

BEIJING (AFP) ? A highly contagious disease especially harmful to young children has killed 50 people in China this year, the health ministry said Friday as it warned the worst was yet to come.

"The spread of hand, foot and mouth disease is still in a period of ascendancy," ministry spokesman Deng Haihua told reporters.

"The numbers of reported illnesses will continue to rise, we expect to see the peak between May and July," he said.

Deng said that as of April 7, 50 deaths had been attributed to hand, foot and mouth disease, known as enterovirus, this year, with clinics and hospitals reporting more than 115,000 cases.

Nearly 95 percent of cases involved children under the age of five, he said.

State media said on Tuesday that a total of 31 deaths had been attributed to the disease, but Deng said that figure referred to March alone.

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease include fever and sores. It can be fatal in children because their immune systems are immature.

The disease claimed an unusually high 128 lives in China in the first 11 months of last year.

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Health Ministry: Hand-foot-mouth disease claims 50 lives this year
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-10 19:55:36

BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China has reported 115,000 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease so far this year as of Tuesday, of which 50 were fatal and 773 were severe, the Ministry of Health said Friday.

The Ministry recorded 54,713 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease in March, of which 31 were fatal, said Deng Haihua, director of the ministry's Information Office at a regular press conference here.

Nearly 95 percent of the patients were children under age five, and baby patients under three accounted for nearly 78 percent of the total, he said.

He said the disease was mainly in rural areas and nearly 80 percent of the total was in 10 provinces and autonomous regions including Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Anhui, Guangdong, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan and Zhejiang.

"Compared with the figures last year, the outbreak seemed to come early. The number of cases was still increasing, and would reach its peak from May to July," he said.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

A total of 1,144 people died from infectious diseases in the Chinese mainland in March, according to the ministry.

Of the 129,191 cases of Class C infectious diseases, 35 were fatal. Hand-foot-mouth disease, other infectious diarrhea and mumps were the top three killers, accounting for 86 percent of the reported cases, the ministry said.

It said there were 359,516 cases of Class B infectious diseases, with 1,109 deaths. Viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, diarrhea and gonorrhea were the top five killers, accounting for almost 95 percent of the reported cases, according to the ministry.

No case of SARS, polio, bird-flu or diphtheria was reported.

Plague and cholera are categorized as Class A infectious diseases, the most serious category, under China's Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.

Class B diseases include 25 ailments such as viral hepatitis and Class C includes 10 diseases, such as influenza.
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SW China province reports its first hand-foot-mouth death
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-11 22:49:17

GUIYANG, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province reported Saturday its first death from hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) this year, said an official with the provincial health bureau.

Guizhou Province has reported 641 cases of infections from the highly contagious disease including two fatal ones and a dead as of April 10, according to the provincial health bureau, the official said.

The cases have been widely distributed in the province involving 59 Counties or 229 townships, the official said.

Central China's Henan Province and its neighboring Shandong Province have reported at least 31 deaths from the HFMD outbreak so far this year.

The total cases of HFMD in China have rise to 115,000 so far this year as of Tuesday, of which 50 were fatal and 773 were severe, the Ministry of Health said Friday.

The HFMD usually starts with a slight fever followed by blisters and ulcers in the mouth and rashes on the hands and feet. It can also lead to meningitis, encephalitis, pulmonary edema and paralysis in some children. There is no vaccine against the disease so far.
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HFMD death toll rises to 15 in E China city
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Updated: 2009-04-12 21:42

JINAN -- One more child has died of hand-foot-mouth disease in Heze, east China's Shandong Province, bringing the death toll in the city to 15.

The death occurred Saturday in Yuncheng County, the Shandong Provincial Health Department announced Sunday, without giving details of the child.

Heze had reported 5,770 cases of the contagious disease as of Saturday, among which 341 were severe and 4,549 had recovered.

The local health authorities have ordered to timely report any outbreaks of the disease and beef up disinfection at hospitals and baby care centers.

The disease had killed 50 children nationwide in the year to April 7, a Health Ministry official said Friday, adding that a total 115,000 cases had been reported.

The official said the disease was mainly reported in rural areas and nearly 80 percent of the total were in 10 provinces and autonomous regions including Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi and Zhejiang.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

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Hand-foot-mouth disease deaths rise to 19 in Shandong
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Updated: 2009-04-13 22:33

JINAN - One more child has died of hand-foot-mouth disease in Shandong, bringing to 19 the death toll in the eastern China province, according to health officials Monday.

The death occurred Sunday in Liaocheng City, the Shandong Provincial Health Department announced Monday, giving no details about the child.

The populous province has reported 17,158 cases of the contagious disease as of Sunday, 442 of which were severe and 12,046 have recovered, it said.

Heze, a city in Shandong's southwest, was the hardest-hit region with 15 deaths. Liaocheng and Jining reported two deaths each.

The local health authorities have ordered hospitals to reserve enough beds and other medical resources to prepare for any massive outbreaks of the disease.

The disease has killed 50 children nationwide this year as of April 7, a Health Ministry official said Friday, adding that a total of 115,000 cases had been reported.

The official said the disease was mainly reported in rural areas and nearly 80 percent of the total were in 10 provinces and autonomous regions including Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Guangxi and Zhejiang.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

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Death toll of hand-foot-mouth disease rises to 25 in C China province
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-15 21:05:45

ZHENGZHOU, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Seven more children died in a hand-foot-mouth disease outbreak in central China's populous Henan Province as of Wednesday, bringing the death toll from the disease to 25, said local authorities.

Fourteen of the 25 dead were from Shangqiu City in east Henan, said Huang Wei, vice head of the provincial health department.

The dead were among the 30,844 cases reported in Henan, 10,922 up from the figure released last Tuesday.

According to Huang, 9,283 children had been hospitalized, 2,027 of whom are still in hospital, including 274 in serious condition.

The official noted that the number of cases soared since the end of March.

"Normally, peak of the disease's outbreak is between May and July," Huang warned.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.

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10,922 up from the figure released last Tuesday.

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China reports 7 new deaths from child virus


BEIJING (AP) ? Seven more children have died in an especially virulent outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in central China, bringing this year's death toll from the virus to 57, state media reported Thursday.

About 126,000 cases have been reported this year ? nearly 55,000 in March alone, 31 of which were fatal. Almost all patients were children under age 5. Health officials have said this year's strain is especially strong.

In China's central Henan province alone, 25 deaths have been reported among about 31,000 cases, up 50 percent from figures released last week, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The seven deaths reported Thursday occurred in Henan.

State media reported last year that the virus sickened 27,000 children and killed dozens in the first few months of 2008 before reports of outbreaks subsided in May.

Most of the cases this year have been in rural areas in the provinces of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Anhui, Guangdong, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan and Zhejiang.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is characterized by fever, mouth sores and a rash with blisters. It is spread by direct contact with nose and throat discharges, saliva, fluid from blisters, or the stool of infected people.

There is no vaccine or specific treatment, but most children affected by the disease recover quickly without problems. It is unrelated to the foot and mouth disease that affects livestock.

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Guangdong, hand, foot and mouth disease during the first quarter of death 3
2009年04月17日04:39 信息时报 【 大 中 小 】 【 打印 】 已有评论0条 At 4:39 on April 17, 2009 Information Times 【Medium Small】 【Print】 there to comment 0

信息时报讯（记者成小珍） 记者昨日从广东省卫生厅获悉，截至今年3月31日，我省共报告手足口病临床及实验室诊断病例4827例，死 亡病例3例，均为5岁以下散居儿童。 Information Times (Reporter Cheng Xiao-Zhen) reporters yesterday from the Guangdong Provincial Health Department was informed that as at March 31 this year, our province of hand-foot-mouth disease were reported in the clinical and laboratory diagnosis of cases of 4827 cases, three cases of deaths are 5 children below the age of diaspora.

手足口病5至7月将达高峰 Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease May to July will reach its peak

据省卫生厅通报，截至2009年3月31日，广东共报告手足口病临床及实验室诊断病例4827例，大部分为 轻型病例；死亡病例3例，其中惠州2例（含1例2008年死亡，2009年订正的死亡病例）、潮州1例，均 为5岁以下散居儿童。 According to the Ministry of Health informed that as at March 31, 2009, Guangdong has reported a total of HFMD cases of clinical and laboratory diagnosis of 4827 cases, the majority of cases for light; three cases of deaths, including two cases of Huizhou (including 1 case in 2008 death, revised in 2009 deaths), 1 cases of Chaozhou are scattered children under 5 years of age.

目前，虽然全省手足口病疫情平稳，但随着夏季的来临，气温的升高，预计报告病例数将在5月至7月份达到高峰 。 At present, although the province's steady hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic, but with the advent of summer, the temperature increased, the number of cases is expected to report in May to a peak in July.

3月传染病肺结核发病最多 In March the most infectious tuberculosis

记者从省卫生厅公布的2009年3月全省法定报告传染病疫情中了解到，2009年3月共报告甲、乙类传染病 发病21882例，死亡67人。 This reporter learned from the Ministry of Health announced in March 2009 the province's statutory report on infectious diseases in that March 2009 report a total of A and B 21,882 cases of infectious diseases, the death of 67 people. 除鼠疫、霍乱、传染性非典型肺炎、脊髓灰质炎、人禽流感、乙脑、登革热、炭疽、流脑、白喉和血吸虫病无发病 、死亡报告外，其余16种甲、乙类传染病均有报告。 In addition to plague, cholera, severe acute respiratory syndrome, polio, human avian influenza, Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever, anthrax, meningitis, diphtheria and non-schistosomiasis incidence, mortality reports, the remaining 16 A and B infection disease have the report.

3月甲、乙类传染病报告发病数居前五位的病种为:肺结核、梅毒、乙型肝炎、淋病和丙型肝炎，占报告发病总数 的90.38%；报告死亡数居前三位的病种为艾滋病、肺结核和狂犬病，占报告死亡总数的94. 03%。 March A, B the number of reported incidence of infectious diseases top five diseases were: tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, gonorrhea and hepatitis C, representing the total number of reported incidence of 90.38%; the report of the first three deaths diseases for AIDS, tuberculosis and rabies, accounting for the report of 94.03% of the total number of deaths.

另据了解，2009年3月（2009年3月1日零时至3月31日24时），全省21个地市共5个市报告突发 公共卫生事件7起（不含未分级事件），报告病例337例，死亡1例。 It is understood that in March 2009 (at 0:00 on March 1, 2009 to March 31 24 pm), the province's 21 prefectures and cities in the city a total of five reports from public health emergencies 7 (excluding Unrated events), 337 cases of reported cases and 1 died. 3月报告事件类型有传染病、食物中毒和流感样病例暴发，其中传染病事件5起(麻疹1起、流行性感冒4起)， 发病286例，无死亡；食物中毒1起，死亡1例。 March types of reporting incidents of infectious diseases, food poisoning and outbreaks of influenza-like cases, of which 5 cases of infectious diseases (measles 1 year, 4 influenza A), incidence of 286 cases, no death; food poisoning 1 1 died .

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Shanghai reports one death from hand-foot-mouth disease
www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-17 19:22:29

SHANGHAI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A 29 month-old boy has died from the hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) in Shanghai, local authorities said Friday.

The infant from east China's Anhui Province fell ill on Saturday and died Thursday in a Shanghai hospital, according to Shanghai Health Bureau.

This has been the first HFMD death report in Shanghai since January 1 this year, it said, adding that 3,172 HFMD cases have been reported this year. Only 25 people have been hospitalized, while the others suffered minor illness.

There has been no disease outbreak in the city, the bureau said.

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness that mainly affects children under the age of 10. Symptoms include fever, sores in the mouth and a rash with blisters. It can sometimes be fatal if complications occur.