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Hand-foot-mouth death toll rises to 28 in China
The highly contagious hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) has led to 28 deaths in China by Wednesday morning, according to confirmed reports from health bureaus.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:12 May 7, 2008
- A child and his grandmother wait to receive a medical check for pathogens that cause hand, foot and mouth disease at a kindergarten in Fuyang, Anhui province.
- Image Credit: Reuters
Beijing: The highly contagious hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) has led to 28 deaths in China by Wednesday morning, according to confirmed reports from health bureaus.
Two new child deaths were reported by the bureaus in the central province of Hunan and southwest Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, after health minister Chen Zhu announced the death toll of 26 on Tuesday.
Both Hunan and Guangxi reported child deaths due to HFMD for the first time.
In Hunan, a 2-year-old girl in Shahe Village of Changde City died on Tuesday morning. She was tested positive for enterovirus 71 (EV71), the most deadly in the virus family that links to the HFMD deaths in China.
A 3-year-old boy in Yulin City of Guangxi had died with HFMD symptoms on May 3. Sample tests proved him EV71 positive by Tuesday.
The current outbreak of HFMD has led to fatalities mostly in east China's Anhui Province, where 22 children died after having been infected with EV71.
Three deaths were in the southern province of Guangdong and one in east China's Zhejiang Province.
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