Beijing, Sha'ban 12, 1435, Jun 10, 2014, SPA -- A total of 1,428 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in May, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Tuesday. A total of 949,748 infectious disease cases were reported last month, it said. Among them, three cases of cholera were reported, but none resulted in death. Plague and cholera are categorized as Class A infectious diseases, the most serious category, Xinhua reported. In addition, about 318,798 cases, which resulted in 1,309 deaths, were identified as Class B infectious diseases. Hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, dysentery and rubella accounted for 91 percent of the cases in this category, the statement said. It added that category C infectious diseases claimed 119 lives in May, with foot-and-mouth disease, infectious diarrhea and mumps reported most frequently. --SPA 20:35 LOCAL TIME 17:35 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w