THE recent outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease will not become an epidemic on the scale of SARS in 2003, Zhong Nanshan, a prominent doctor, said at a conference in Guangzhou yesterday, a Guangzhou-based newspaper reported... ...full story at Shanghai Daily
from Shanghai Daily on Wed, May 07 2008
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Hand, Foot and Mouth Epidemic Spreading in China »
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