>>>Guangdong
Guangdong has been mentioned A LOT since the early to mid nineties with everything from AIDS, anthrax, to SARS. Guangdong alone has designated 158 hospitals for treating SARS victims.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030405.uscie0405/BNStory The WHO team investigating SARS in China spent yesterday in Guangdong's Foshan City, where the first patient with the disease was recognized last Nov. 16.
http://www.newsgd.com/prdcorner/hkmacaoexpress/200308010039.htm HK's anthrax case under investigation
Latest Updated by 2003-06-11 11:23:42
Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) said Tuesday it is investigating into a case of anthrax in which a two-year-old boy developed symptoms of the disease on May 27 and died three days later.
http://www.aegis.com/news/ap/1996/ap961029.html A health official in Guangdong, the southern Chinese province of 66 million people where the contaminated Wolongsong was discovered, said the medicine is made by a factory run by the Logistics Department of the Guangzhou Military Region.
The factory has disowned responsibility for the contaminated vials, saying they were counterfeit copies of its product, said a spokesman for Guangdong's Health Bureau, who gave only his surname, Hu.
http://www.aegis.com/news/afp/2001/AF0111C4.html HIV rates among injecting drug users are at least 70 percent in Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang province and Ruili County in Yunnan province. In at least three provinces (Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong), "there are also signs of heterosexually transmitted HIV epidemics" driven by men who have unprotected sex with prostitutes.
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/August2001/HepBPlaguesChina.htm SHANGHAI, China - The use of dirty needles in injections and acupuncture has helped give the southern province of Guangdong one of the highest rates of hepatitis B infection in the world, officials and experts said yesterday.
Blood samples taken from patients during hospital visits indicate 10 million people - 75 percent of the province's population - have had the potentially lethal disease, said Luo Huiming, of the Guangdong Disease Control and Prevention Center.
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