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A child, who is infected with a kind of intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71, or EV71, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fuyang
04 May 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A child, who is infected with a kind of intestinal virus, identified as enterovirus 71, or EV71, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fuyang, Anhui province, May 4, 2008. China ordered authorities on Saturday to tackle hand, foot and mouth disease aggressively ahead of the Beijing Olympics after a rapidly spreading outbreak killed at least 23 children and infected nearly 4,000. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT
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Children look at the wreckage of a derailed freight train along the Kenya-Uganda railway line in Nairobi's Kibera slums, May 6, 2008. Kenya is east Africa's biggest economy and the gateway ...




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