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Hepatitis A Outbreak Contained at East China University
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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 December 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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