Another mysterious health outbreak has hit China. An AP story says:
Some 400 students at a university in central China have come down with a mystery fever and the cause was under investigation, state media said Monday.The first cases was reported March 26, when 22 students at the Henan University of Science and Technology in the city of Luoyang were sickened, the official Xinhua News Agency said on its Web site.
"The situation has been effectively controlled," Xinhua said. "After one or two days of treatment, they regained their health." Lab tests have ruled out the possibility of an outbreak of influenza, it said, and the health officials were still trying to determine what the sickness was and what had caused it.
Brilliant site. Public health in China faces huge challenges in the years to come. It makes me nervous to think that the government has been adopting draconian measures to deal with outbreaks. The public health campaigns are strikingly reminiscent of socialist health campaigns during the 1950s. It seems some scripts never die.
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