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Beijing hand, foot and mouth disease this year

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Beijing hand, foot and mouth disease this year, the number of deaths doubled over last year at 15:15 on August 20, 2009 Source: China News comments 【Font: ↑ ↓ Small Big】 China news agency, Beijing, August 20 (Reporter Du Yan) -- Beijing hand, foot and mouth disease in the past six weeks of continuous decline, but the latest data show that hand, foot and mouth cases in Beijing reported this week, an increase over the previous week. Beijing hand, foot and mouth disease this year, a total of four cases of deaths, more than double last year.

Beijing Municipal Health Bureau on the 20th broadcast-date health, said that Beijing reported this week, hand, foot and mouth disease cases nearly 700 cases, an increase of nearly 4 percent over the previous week, up 172 percent over a year earlier. As of this week, Beijing had reported cases of Hand, Foot and mouth disease in more than 18,000 cases of the death of four cases. Among them, with two cases of deaths reported last year compared with hand, foot and mouth disease this year, the number of deaths doubled.

In addition, the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau stressed that the annual seasonal influenza Jian prevalence and deaths will occur this year, may also be faced with the Influenza A H1N1 pandemic influenza double the risk, we recommend the public to seasonal influenza vaccine inoculation, and from the past began in October vaccination, early vaccination to be completed by the end of September.

Up to now, Beijing had reported cases of Influenza A H1N1 confirmed 680 cases of influenza, of which 240 cases of foreign and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, no deaths reported.

Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said it would focus Influenza H1N1 influenza and hand, foot and mouth disease and other infectious diseases, the current focus on the changes of the city and make the greatest efforts to reduce the aggregation of the disease, severe cases and deaths from happening. End


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