BEIJING: A total of 1,280 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in August, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced Thursday.
A total of 563,589 infectious disease cases were reported last month, it said.
None of the deaths were a result of Class A diseases, the most serious which include plague and cholera.
About 304,895 cases, which were identified as Class B infectious diseases, they caused 1,249 deaths.
Hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, dysentery and gonorrhea accounted for 93 percent of the cases in this category, according to China's News Agency (Xinhua).
It added that category C infectious diseases claimed 31 lives last month, with foot-and-mouth disease, infectious diarrhea and mumps being reported most frequently. (QNA)
