Sunday, March 29, 2009

China: the situation of the HFMD epidemic has worsened, avian influenza re-starts

Date: 28-03-2009

According to Lyuy Fan and Xiong Bin, correspondents NTD, a situation of epidemic HFMD * in China has worsened. Until March 20, only in the province of Henan has already registered 2512 cases of HFMD. From Hainan and Shandong provinces also reported the 366 and 502 cases of infection.

Information on HFMD epidemic first appeared only on the Internet. Local residents of the province of Shandong have argued that since the end of last year, in the province have been cases where children died from infection HFMD.

One eyewitness of the Fujian Province reported that the area Nanpin also had a lot of child deaths from the disease, but all the media are silent, as if nothing happened. The Government should immediately inform the people about the epidemic, so that the residents were able to take appropriate measures and prevent infection. Concealment of such information - it is a crime.

In recent days residents of the area Mintsyuan Henan reported online that the hospital falsified medical records to hide the epidemic, and the local administration has ordered to prohibit the communication of the situation with the epidemic and the numbers of deaths from the disease.

At the same time, a woman from Henan Province, Ms. Chen, said in an interview that it might be among the dead, not all are infected with HFMD, and that most quickly, again beginning of the epidemic of avian influenza.

According to Ms. Chen, after the Chinese New Year, many of them residents of the area began to ache. Then came the group care workers, which in each village had a disinfection, explained that this is related to chickens, geese and other poultry.

hat-tip Helblindi

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