Friday, May 9, 2008

Efforts being made to control Enterovirus 71


Seen here, children receiving a medical check up and a child's mouth is being disinfected to prevent the infectious Enterovirus 71. A Chinese Physician has said that the EV-71 virus will not become another epidemic on the scale of the SARS virus, even though numbers of reported cases continue to escalate.

Two more Chinese children have now died from the hand-foot-mouth disease, driving the national death toll to 34 more here from China.org