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AIDS becomes China's 3rd deadliest infectious disease
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-13 19:37
AIDS overtook hepatitis B to become the third-deadliest infectious disease
last year, said China's Ministry of Health in a report released on Monday.
A total of 4.42 million cases of infectious diseases were reported and 13,263
people died last year, increases of 12.7 percent and 81.92 percent from 2004
respectively.
Tuberculosis, hepatitis B, dysentery, gonorrhea and syphilis were the top
five most common infectious diseases, accounting for 85.66 percent of the total
cases, it said.
Tuberculosis, rabies, AIDS, hepatitis B and tetanus in newbornswere the top
five killers, accounting for 89.4 percent of the total cases.
There were no reports in the number of new cases and deaths of contagious
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), poliomyelitis and diphtheria.
Cases caused by infectious respiratory diseases rose by 31.7 percent last
year. Among them, cases of measles and tuberculosis jumped by 73.52 percent and
29.03 percent respectively.
Infectious diseases in China are classified into three categories and 37
types according to the country's newly-revised laws on prevention and control of
communicable diseases, which took effect on Dec. 1, 2004.
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