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Syphilis spreading in China

Tue, 2009-11-03 04:37 — Robyn

GENEVA - CHINA is experiencing an epidemic of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that the country virtually wiped out in the 1960s, a senior public health official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

In the WHO Bulletin, a journal produced by the World Health Organisation, Dr Xiang-Sheng Chen of China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said mass migration of rural workers to Chinese cities has been a major factor in the viral spread.

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