China on alert over deadly child virus

May 3, 2008 – 1:28 pm

China’s Health Ministry strengthened surveillance and dispatched specialists to eastern China’s Anhui province as the death toll from a virulent virus climbed to 22, the country’s Xinhua news agency reported.


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