Hepatitis Reported Subsiding in Shanghai
Shanghai health officials say a monthlong epidemic of hepatitis is now under control, the New China News Agency reported Tuesday.
The agency quoted Public Health Bureau officials in China’s largest city as saying some patients are now being discharged from hospitals and no new cases have been reported in the past few days.
Shanghai health officials said last week that 16,000 people in the city of 12 million had contracted hepatitis, 90% from eating clams contaminated in polluted coastal waters. Western doctors in Shanghai estimated that the number of sick could be as high as 40,000.
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