A child is checked for symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease before acceptance into a kindergarten in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province Wednesday May 7, 2008. China has ordered health care providers to immediately report all cases of...

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China has made it mandatory for health care providers to report all cases of a viral illness that has sickened thousands of young children across the country, as the death toll rose Wednesday to 28. So far there have been 15,799 cases of hand,...
BEIJING -- The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sickened thousands of others. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is...
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