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

From 0£º00 of August 1st to 24:00 of August 31st , 2008, there were reports of 21 Type A and Type B epidemics from all the 90 counties (cities, districts) across Zhejiang Province. The epidemic cases totaled 17147, 21 of which were reported to have died. There were no reports on bubonic plague, human infection highly pathogenic avian influenza, SARS, poliomyelitis, anthrax, or diphtheria.

In August, 2008, the 5 epidemics with the highest incidences were tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, bacillary and amoebic dysentery and gonorrhea£¬accounting for 90.17 percent of the total number of incidences. The cases of deaths resulting from the diseases are listed as follows: AIDS (6 cases), tuberculosis (5 cases), newborn baby tetanus (4 cases), rabies (3 cases), hepatitis B (1 case), hepatitis E (1 case) and undifferentiated hepatitis (1 case).