The Hepatitis A outbreak that has infected 107 people
from east China's Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine appears to have been brought under control, local health
authorities said on Friday.
"No new hepatitis A case has been found in the past
three days and the patients are in a stable condition," said Pu
Zhirong, director of the emergency office under the Jiangxi
Provincial Health Department.
Sixty-four students from the Wanli campus of the
university in Nanchang were diagnosed with hepatitis A and
hospitalized on Dec. 19.
The number rose to 107 on Wednesday but there have
been no fatalities.
More than 7,000 students from the university attended
the national College English Test (CET) last Saturday as
scheduled.
An investigation traced the cause of the outbreak to
two canteen workers, who were hepatitis A carriers.
(Xinhua News Agency December 30, 2006)
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