Source: Xinhua

04-10-2009 09:58

JINAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- One more child has died of hand-foot-mouth disease on Wednesday in east China's Shandong Province, bringing the death toll in the province to 17, the local health authority said Thursday.

As of Wednesday, Heze City, the worst-hit area of Shandong has reported 5,155 cases of the disease, among which 3,614 have recovered, said the provincial health administration.

The administration did not provide further details about the latest victim.

All the 17 cities of the province have reported the disease. Heze has registered 14 deaths from the disease in the outbreak, Jining City registered two and Liaocheng one, since the first victim, a 20-month boy, died in Heze on March 22.

More than 80 experts have been sent to Heze to reinforce the medical service.

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