More than 4.6 million epidemic cases were reported and 10,726 people died of epidemics on the Chinese mainland in 2006, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

Tuberculosis, hepatitis B, diarrhea, syphilis and gonorrhea accounted for more than 85 percent of the diseases reported, while88 percent of the people who died were victims of tuberculosis, rabies, AIDS, hepatitis B and cerebrospinal meningitis, said an MOH report.

No pandemic broke out last year but regional epidemics were found, according to the report, citing the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis in Guizhou, measles in Jilin, Heilongjiang and Hainan, typhoid in Yunnan and Xinjiang, and malaria in Anhui and Henan.

No incidences of SARS or poliomyelitis were found in 2006, it said.

But the number of malaria cases rose 50.9 percent and cerebrospinal meningitis cases went up 49.1 percent.

Hepatitis C cases increased by 32.8 percent, syphilis cases were 31.6 percent. Respiratory diseases and intestinal diseases were down 11 percent and 8 percent each.

Eight people died of avian flu out of the 12 cases reported in nine provinces and autonomous regions last year, said the report.

The report said more people were infected and died of Epidemic C in 2006 over the previous year, with 1,119,976 cases of Epidemic C were found and the death toll reached 103.

There were over one million cases of dysentery, mumps, influenza, rubella and conjunctivitis.

据卫生部统计，2006年中国大陆有超出4.6百万传染病案例报道，有10726人死于传染病。据卫生部报告称，肺结核、乙肝、糖尿病、梅毒和淋病占总病例的85％，而88％的人是死于肺结核、狂犬病、艾滋病、乙肝和脑膜炎。据报告称，去年没有爆发全国性传染疾病但是发现有区域性传染病，引用例子有：贵州发生的脑脊椎膜炎和吉林、黑龙江和海南发生的麻疹，云南和新疆发生的伤寒及安徽和河南发生的疟疾。 2006年没有发现SARS或小儿麻痹症。但是疟疾数量上升50.9％脑脊椎膜炎上升49.1％。丙肝案例上升32.8％，梅毒上升31.6％，呼吸道疾病和肠道疾病分别下降11％和8％。报告称在9个省和自治区中的12例禽流感病例中8人死亡。报告称2006年有更多的人被感染，死于C性传染病的超过上一年，发现119976个C型传染病例，死亡人数达103人。有超过1百万的痢疾、腮腺炎、流感、风疹和结膜炎病例。