Chinareported two more deaths on Thursday from a severe strain of hand, footand mouth disease, bringing its toll from the outbreak to 30, all ofthem young children, Xinhua news agency reported."Hand, foot and mouth...
" China didn't cover up hand, foot and mouth disease cases, the World Health Organization's China representative said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hans Troedsson, the representative, said information about the outbreak was delayed because of trouble with...
The World Health Organization said that an infectious virus responsiblefor the deaths of 24 children in China is unlikely to threaten theBeijing Olympics, although it is too early to say whether the infectionhas peaked, APreported. The enterovirus 71, or EV-71, causes severe...
UPDATE: 12:10AM EST - May 4The death toll has now been raised to 24."China on Sunday raised the death toll to 24 following the outbreak of a virus in another province a day after the Health Ministry ordered...
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The front pages of the Chinese dailies are full of stories describing the disastrous impact of the snow storms during the busiest travel season of the Chinese calendar.The Chinese government has sent in their...
"Scientists declared the white dolphin, native to China's Yangtze river, extinct last year. But there is a shred of hope: the animal may have been spotted swimming in the wild.
Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
"Migrating birds are the suspected source of the first virus transfer in 2007 to a flock of chickens as China steps up its second-phase clinical trials effort to create a vaccine.
The unusually warm spring weather is...
"A Chinese man was jailed for eight years for making 60 tonnes of fake sex pills, state media reported on Friday as the country cracks down on pirates who copy nearly every product.
Xi Yongli and his accomplices sold 21.8 million yuan ($2.78 million) of America Number One,...