Infectious Diseases in Hong Kong

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    Infectious Diseases in Hong Kong

    Came across an interesting page on the HK Centre for Health Protection website. It lists out all the "Notifiable Infectious Diseases" in Hong Kong, by month.

    A few statistics suprised me, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow), Legionnaires, Tuberculosis and Hep C. It also lists food poisoning outbreaks and people affected.

    Some lazy Friday afternoon reading:
    Centre for Health Protection


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    The number of Legionnaires diseases for the year of 34 is a bit surprising but maybe not given the number of old buildings in HK. Then numbers for mumps and measles seems low but then again this might not get reported as kids would likely just stay home.