From 0:00 of October 1st to 24:00 of October 31st, 2008, there were reports of 19 Type A and Type B epidemics from all the 90 counties (cities, districts) across Zhejiang Province. The epidemic cases totaled15596, 20 of which were reported to have died. There were no reports on bubonic plague, cholera, human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, SARS, poliomyelitis, dengue fever, anthrax, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria and schistosomiasis.

In October, 2008, the 5 epidemics with the highest incidences were tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis B, gonorrhea, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, accounting for 92.36% of the total number of incidences. The cases of deaths resulting from the diseases are listed as follows: AIDS (6 cases), tuberculosis (4 cases), rabies (4 cases), newborn baby tetanus (3 cases), hepatitis B (2 cases) and syphilis (1 case).

Zhejiang Health Department Office
November 6, 2008