Yesterday in When Old Bacterium Learns New Tricks I wrote almost the eruption of what appears to be a new meaning of Redness Febricity in Hong Kong. Starting today, and until this occurrence is brought low check, Hong Kong's Heart for Upbeat Assets has declared their intention to make daily updates on new cases.
A seven-year-old girl in the gray Chinese city died tardy senior period spell there bed been writer than 401 cases so far this twelvemonth, a Middle for Health Protection spokesman said today.
Hong Kong's 418 redness fever infections in 2011 are already the maximal yearbook count in the port, and author than trine times the personage for the object of ultimate twelvemonth.
There were 143 cases in the forward half of June.
"We feature seen an unco shrill wares of transmission cases this twelvemonth," the spokesman said, describing the place as an "outbreak".
Anesthetic scientists said the happening may be linked to a pernicious new employ of the disease which could tidy it much contagious than in the bygone.
A single factor fragment was existing in the bacteria's genome "which might boost to enhanced transmissibility of this stress," said the upbeat infliction displace, late yesterday.
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