US offers to help tackle HFMD outbreak

The United States has said it will offer any assistance necessary to help Chinese authorities tackle the ongoing outbreak of hand-food-mouth disease (HFMD), which has so far claimed 30 lives.

William Steiger, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs under the US Department of Health and Human Services made the offer on Wednesday, while talking to the China News Service.

"We are willing to help China in any way possible with this issue," he said.