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On December 5, 2014, at a rental house in a village in the city in Wuhan, Hubei Province, 9-year-old boy Tan Zhouyu was too cold to fall asleep. His father Tan Jihai sent him to Wuhan hospital to get treatment, half a month had passed, he must wear a mask to fix the poultice on his head.
