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Infectious diseases kill 754 people in July
Official figures show 390,418 people contracted serious infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland during July, the Ministry of Health revealed yesterday.
Under Chinese law, reports on the situation regarding 27 serious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, anthrax, rabies, TB and hepatitis should be made public every month. The anthrax outbreak, which has so far infected 114 people, affects Southwest China's Guizhou Province, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Northeast China's Liaoning and Jilin provinces. According to the Ministry of Health, the three patients who died had all been in close contact with infected horses or cows. From July 29 to August 5, a total of 12 anthrax cases, including one death, had been identified in two villages in Liaoning Province. These localized outbreaks are now under control, according to a statement released by the Liaoning health authority. Infections from livestock to humans are relatively
common and cases appear in China every year, mainly in Qinghai, Yunnan, Gansu
and Liaoning provinces and Xinjiang Uygur and Tibet autonomous regions, the
ministry said.
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