(CN) 'China number two in world for rabies deaths'

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'China number two in world for rabies deaths'

AFP 28 September 2009, 11:29am IST

BEIJING: China is second only to India worldwide in the number of people killed

by rabies every year, the government has reported, making the

disease one of the nation's biggest public health threats.

 

" China is one of the countries most severely affected by rabies, and in recent

years the number of annual reported deaths from rabies has averaged around

2,400, " the health ministry said in a statement on its website.

 

" It is only inferior in number to India, and gives us the world's second-place

ranking. "

 

The statement, issued to coincide with World Rabies Day on Monday, said rabies

was among the top three infectious diseases in China.

 

According to the official Global Times newspaper, the other two serious diseases

with high fatality rates are AIDS and tuberculosis.

 

The ministry quoted the World Health Organization as saying that more than

55,000 people die from rabies - a disease most often transmitted through animal

bites - every year, with 95 per cent of the cases in Asia or Africa.

 

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