Cholera case confirmed in HK
14/10/2008 17:21
The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of Hong Kong
has confirmed a cholera case involving a six-year-old local boy.
A spokesman
for the center said yesterday that laboratory tests on stool specimens taken
from the boy who was admitted to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital last
week for suspected cholera have yielded positive result for Vibrio cholerae
Ogawa.
The boy arrived from Nepal on Oct. 3 and his travel companions have no
symptoms. He is now in stable condition.
According to the center, this is the
fifth cholera case reported to the center this year in the city, and there were
three in 2007.
Xinhua
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