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East China cholera outbreak sickens 30

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-08-29 16:08

HEFEI, Anhui - East China's Mengcheng county government would ensure nobody died from a recent cholera outbreak which had sickened 30 people in nearly two weeks, a government spokesman said Sunday.

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The government has taken a series of measures including closely monitoring patients and prohibiting restaurants serving cold dishes to stop the disease from spreading and prevent any fatalities, said Wang Lin, deputy director of the county health bureau.

The outbreak, thought to have been caused by unclean food, sickened 30 people in Mengcheng County of east China's Anhui Province, local health officials reported Saturday.

Twenty of the patients were still hospitalized as of Saturday, with most exhibiting the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, said officials with the Anhui provincial health bureau.

Medical experts had been sent to the county to assist in the treatment and to supervise the prevention work. The outbreak is being reined in, officials said.