ApocaDocs: Deadly viral outbreak in China may not peak for two months

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Posted Mon May 5 2008: from The Hindu (India):


	Deadly viral outbreak in China may not peak for two months http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1210022497 A fast-spreading viral disease in eastern China, which has claimed the lives of at least 21 children, might not peak for another two months as it thrives in warm weather, the UN warned on Saturday. Reports from China said Enterovirus-71 or EV-71 has infected nearly 3,000 children, most of them under two. Called hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), it starts with fever and leads to ulcers in mouth, hands and buttocks.... There is no vaccine or known cure and the disease takes its own course. In most cases, children recover after about a week without treatment but in serious cases, brain swelling and paralysis leading to death might occur.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Perhaps if nearly a billion Chinese didn't live hand-to-mouth, it'd only be a foot disease.