“She had small herpes on her hands and her feet,” was how a Chinese student recently informed me that her niece had just a few days ago contracted the Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, also known as EV71. ”She is OK now,” my student explained. “We took her to the hospital on the first day so the doctors were able to treat her.” My [...]
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Whatever Happened to EV71?
Posted by Robert Vance on June 20th, 2008
Posted in The Vance Report 
Tags: and Mouth Disease, disease in China, EV71, Foot, Hand, teach in China, teach-abroad 
No Comments »Will Kids be Banned from the Olympic Games?
Posted by Robert Vance on May 8th, 2008
Beijing authorities have been working hard to rid the 2008 Olympic host city of beggars, stray cats, bad English signs, polluted air, rundown hotels, and foreign students who are seen as a political threat to the Games. Now that hand-foot-mouth disease has once again reared its ugly head in China and poses yet another threat to China’s precious Olympic Games, should not the authorities move [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008 Games, Beijing Olympics, CCP, China Disease, Communism, EV71, Hand Foot Mouth Disease No Comments »
