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...Ministry of Health, 810,000 people contracted schistosomiasis, more than double the number of cases in 1988. But experts caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working the fields near Dongting Lake is now infected with schistosomiasis. He charges staff at the local health bureau with consistently underreporting the number of people infected in recent years...
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