| Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year. |
| Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year. |
| Her parents were told it was 'unknown death' and received a small sum in compensation. But the villagers said it was the new disease, guolaosi. Overwork death. |
