Nov 3rd, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
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GENEVA (AP) - China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
The sexually transmitted disease re-emerged in China during 1980s after being virtually eradicated for two decades, and cases are now growing by 30 percent a year, Chen Xiangsheng said in an interview in the World Health Organization's monthly bulletin.
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