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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.
Last year, 278,215 cases were officially reported, said Chen, the deputy director of China's National Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control.
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