From: Emergency office of Zhejiang center for disease prevention and control
Zhejiang epidemic situation proclamation of legal reporting infectious disease in April, 2004
2004-5-25

In April, 2004, among 27 legal reporting infectious diseases, there is no case reporting of plague, cholera, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, canine madness, leptospirosis, brucellosis, anthrax, epidemic and local macula typhoid, Meningococcal Meningitis, kala-azar, dengue, and Sars, and other epidemic diseases reported 18824 cases and death toll of 17.

The top five epidemic diseases reported in April were tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, gonorrhea, lues, bacterial and amebic dysentery, accounting for 83.68 percent of total reporting cases. Death cases were tuberculosis (5 cases), tetanus of new born babies (4 cases), Hepatitis B (3 cases), non-classified Hepatitis (2 cases), epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (2 cases), epidemic bleeding fever (1 case). The top five diseases of death rate were tetanus of new born babies, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic bleeding fever, non-classified Hepatitis and tuberculosis.

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