Tuesday, February 17, 2009

AIDS in China

For the first time ever in 2008, AIDS was the number one deadly disease. It killed nearly 7000 people in the first nine months of 2008. There were a total of 264,302 aids/HIV cases by the end of September 2008. The Country also reported a 20% rise in Syphillis last year as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090217/hl_nm/us_china_aids_1

1 Comments:

Blogger Allison said...

what was the most deadly disease before AIDS took #1?

4:47 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home