At midnight, in a tiny, isolated
village in Zhejiang province, seven-year-old Caiqiu Tang woke up
screaming. Her pillow was wet with blood and in the blackness, she
couldn't feel her teeth. 'I was panicked and frightened to death,' she
remembers. 'I called for my mother but she was so panicked too that she
couldn't light the matches to see what was wrong. She used a whole box of
matches and eventually my father woke up and when he managed to make a
light, they saw pools of blood everywhere. The skin on my face had rotted
and turned black, and my flesh was pulpy like fermented tofu. All the
teeth on one side of my face had fallen out and the bone of my jaw and my
cheekbones had begun to crumble and fall out, too. When I tried standing
up, my body was all stooped and the blood and saliva fell out of me in
sticky, stringy ropes.'
MORE ON...
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4616329,00.html
See also this Guardian article
from August, and this SF Chronicle
article from 2001
http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
