I. General Situation of Epidemics
During the 15th week of 2010 (from April 12 to April 18, 2010), 2420 cases of 18 catogories of notifiable diseases with 2 cases of death (hepatitis B and AIDS respectively) were reported in 18 districts and counties of Beijing Municipality. Among them, 911 cases out of 11 categories were Type B infectious diseases, which was 8.71% higher than last week and 22.94% higher than the same period of last year. The top 5 categories of diseases with the highest reported incidence rates were as follows: tuberculosis, dysentery, measles, hepatitis B and syphilis. And 1509 cases out of 7 categories of Type C infectious diseases were reported, up by 18.26% and 3.02% as against last week and the same period of last year respectively.

II. Major Epidemics
1. Measles
This week, a total amount of 133 cases of measles were reported in Beijing, which was 26.67% higher than the previous week and 70.51% higher than the same period last year. Those infected were mainly scattered-living children, housekeeping and unemployed people, and cadres and staff from institutions and enterprises, accounting for 60.90% of the reported total.

2. Chicken Pox
A total amount of 350 cases were reported this week, up by 21.95% than last week and down by 30.42% than the same period last year respectively. Those infected were mainly students and preschool children, accounting for 83.14% of the reported total.

3. Hand-foot-mouth Disease
This week, a total amount of 916 cases were reported, up by 57.39% than last week and 29.93% than the same period last year respectively. Those infected were mainly children that were either living scatteredly or in nurseries and kindergartens, accounting for 96.51% of the reported total
 

Up till April 18, 2010, a total amount of 2961 cases of the hand-foot-mouth disease were reported across the city, down by 7.47% than the same period of last year (3200 cases).

III. A Report on Non-professional Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
This week, a total of 24 cases were reported in Beijing with 46 people being poisoned.

IV. Key Notes
The epidemic situation of this week across Beijing remained stable in general. As spring is a peak season for outbreak of respiratory infectious diseases, disease prevention and treatment organs at all levels should continue to give priority to such diseases and make greater efforts in monitoring and controlling them to prevent outbreaks.

As it gradually turns warmer since the beginning of April, reported cases of intestinal infectious diseases have started to increase in our municipality. Organs at various levels that supervise the health situation should intensify their efforts in supervising the food and catering industries together with implementation to ensure food hygiene and safety. Organs at all levels for disease control and all the outpatient departments for intestinal diseases should monitor, report, prevent and treat such diseases actively and effectively, enhancing the strength to disseminate knowledge on food safety, raising all the people’s awareness of self-protection and help them form good sanitary habits.