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NEWS
September 11, 2012
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Infectious disease experts monitor outbreaks of enterovirus 71 in Asia
Canadian infectious disease experts are monitoring a strain of enterovirus 71, which causes hand, foot and mouth disease with neurological and cardiovascular complications that is killing children in Asia.
Taiwan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and China have all seen large outbreaks of the acute viral illness, which is usually transmitted by the fecal-oral route. In July, the World Health Organization reported that 54 children, most aged three and under, had died in Cambodia after contracting what was originally described as a "mystery illness." Earlier this year, enterovirus 71 killed 56 people in China, where there have been 1.5 million cases reported to date, up from 964 000 in all of 2011. Another 33 deaths were reported in Vietnam.
"It's a bit of a mystery as to why it [enterovirus 71] continues to circulate,...
NEWS
September 11, 2012
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Infectious disease experts monitor outbreaks of enterovirus 71 in Asia
Canadian infectious disease experts are monitoring a strain of enterovirus 71, which causes hand, foot and mouth disease with neurological and cardiovascular complications that is killing children in Asia.
Taiwan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and China have all seen large outbreaks of the acute viral illness, which is usually transmitted by the fecal-oral route. In July, the World Health Organization reported that 54 children, most aged three and under, had died in Cambodia after contracting what was originally described as a "mystery illness." Earlier this year, enterovirus 71 killed 56 people in China, where there have been 1.5 million cases reported to date, up from 964 000 in all of 2011. Another 33 deaths were reported in Vietnam.
"It's a bit of a mystery as to why it [enterovirus 71] continues to circulate,...