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Zhejiang Health Department Releases Statutory Report on Epidemics in July 2008
2008-9-15

From 0£º00 of July 1st to 24:00 of July 31st , 2008, there were reports of 18 Type A and Type B epidemics from all the 90 counties (cities, districts) across Zhejiang Province. The epidemic cases totaled 17570, 19 of which were reported to have died. There were no reports on bubonic plague, human infection highly pathogenic avian influenza, SARS, poliomyelitis, dengue fever, anthrax, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria or leptospirosis.

In July, 2008, the 5 epidemics with the highest incidences were tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, gonorrhea, and bacillary and amoebic dysentery£¬accounting for 88.58 percent of the total number of incidences. The cases of deaths resulting from the diseases are listed as follows: rabies (5 cases), AIDS (4 cases), tuberculosis (4 cases), hepatitis B (3 case), epidemic encephalitis B (2 cases), and undifferentiated hepatitis (1 case).