Thursday, February 2, 2012

Warm weather high prevalence of hand, foot and mouth disease

Warm weather high hand, foot and mouth disease along with the weather warming, throughout the ever-increasing number of reported cases of hand foot and mouth disease, the Health Department issued an emergency circular requesting increase the intensity of monitoring to prevent cases of hand foot and mouth disease outbreak.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common infectious disease caused by a combination of intestinal virus, dominated by infantile onset. Most patients are mild, with fever and hand, foot, mouth and other parts of herpes rash or as the main character. Minority patients complicated with aseptic meningitis, encephalitis and myocarditis, acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory tract infections, some children with severe disease progress faster, prone to death. Infection incidence of many children and adults, but can spread viruses. During the epidemic should not bring children to the crowd, poor air circulation in public places, pay attention to maintaining household sanitation and personal hygiene. The original version see the family health report of March 26, 2009

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