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Dispatches

Sentinel Surveillance for Enterovirus 71, Taiwan, 1998

Trong-Neng Wu,* Su-Fen Tsai,* Shu-Fang Li,* Tsuey-Fong Lee,* Tzu-Mei Huang,* Mei-Li Wang,* Kwo-Hsiung Hsu,† and Chen-Yang Shen‡
*Disease Surveillance and Quarantine Service, Ministry of Health, Taiwan, Republic of China; †Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Taiwan, Republic of China; and ‡Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Back to article Figure 1. Total cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease and herpangina reported from sentinel physicians in Taiwan, March 19 to August 29, 1998.

Back to article Figure 2. Number of hospitalizations and severe cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease and herpangina in Taiwan, June-August, 1998.