
A total of 1,448 Chinese died of infectious diseases in October, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said Tuesday.
The month saw more than 609,000 cases of infectious disease. Category A plague killed two people and four reported cases of cholera were resolved without deaths, Xinhua reported.
In Category B infectious diseases, atypical pneumonia, polio, avian influenza and diphtheritis saw no reported cases, with 1,421 casualties among the other 22 diseases in Category B. Hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, dengue and diarrhoea were the most common.
The infectious diseases in Category C killed 25 people in October, the commission said.
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