5Vote!
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... — 99 percent of these are mild cases,” said World Health Organization (WHO) China representative Hans Troedsson in a statement on Wednesday. Incidents of the disease are expected to peak in June and July. Children with mild cases of the disease generally recover rapidly after manifesting a rash and a fever. Other symptoms include diarrhea, cold-like symptoms, and sores on the extremities...
3Vote!
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Beijing and Shanghai."What I know is the death rate has gone down drastically since early May," Hans Troedsson, a World Health Organization China representative, said Wednesday. "There are very, very few cases with complications - 99 percent of these are mild cases."The U.S. health and human services secretary, Mike Leavitt, was visiting China this week and said the United States...
+Vote!
Physorg (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... rate has gone down drastically since early May," World Health Organization China representative Hans Troedsson said Wednesday. "There are very, very few cases with complications - 99 percent of these are mild cases." U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt was visiting China this week and said the U.S. was willing to help China battle the illness. Most cases of hand,...
+Vote!
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... "China has the capacity, both at the central and local level, to control this disease," Hans Troedsson, the WHO representative in China, told reporters. HFMD is a common childhood disease that causes symptoms including ulcers and blisters in the mouth, rashes on the hands and feet and fever. It is spread mainly by enterovirus or EV71, which is from the same family as the polio virus,...
