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China puts nation on alert to try to stop deadly virus
Another deadly virus has the Chinese authorities worried.
BEIJING - China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday calling for heightened efforts to control a virus that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading.
Health bureaus around the country must step up monitoring for hand, foot and mouth disease following a "relatively large" outbreak in the central city of Fuyang, the Health Ministry said in notices on its Web site.
Source: news.yahoo.com via mtippett





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Some more detail, which does not paint a very pretty picture: