Encephalitis B outbreak kills 17 in N.China

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Plagues, Pestilences and diseases

Encephalitis B outbreak kills 17 in northern China*

Reuters
August 12, 2006; 11:10 PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - An outbreak of mosquito-borne encephalitis B has
killed 17 people in a city in northern China in the past two weeks, the
official Xinhua news agency reported.

Health experts and local authorities in Yuncheng in Shanxi Province were
working on urgent measures to prevent the spread of the disease, the
agency said.

It quoted the city's health bureau as having confirmed at least 40 cases
of the disease, which causes inflammation of the brain.