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)