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Toll in China disease outbreak rises to 50

(World health - EU Monitor 10/04/2009)

BEIJING, CHINA - A highly contagious disease especially harmful to young children has killed 50 people in China this year, the health ministry said Friday as it warned the worst was yet to come. "The spread of hand, foot and mouth disease is still in a period of ascendancy," ministry spokesman Deng Haihua told reporters. "The numbers of reported illnesses will continue to rise, we expect to see the peak between May and July," he said.

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