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  2. Report: Hand-foot-and-mouth disease on the rise - AOL

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    Hand-foot-and-mouth disease, also known as HFMD, is a highly contagious virus. It's not the same as foot-and-mouth disease, which often occurs in animals. This one is similar in how it spreads ...

  3. Hand, foot, and mouth disease - Wikipedia

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. [10] It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally unwell . [ 10 ] This is followed a day or two later by flat discolored spots or bumps that may blister, on the hands, feet and mouth and occasionally buttocks and groin.

  4. Enterovirus 71 - Wikipedia

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    Enterovirus 71 (EV71), also known as Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71), is a virus of the genus Enterovirus in the Picornaviridae family, [1] notable for its role in causing epidemics of severe neurological disease and hand, foot, and mouth disease in children. [2] It was first isolated and characterized from cases of neurological disease in California ...

  5. Foot-and-mouth disease - Wikipedia

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    The incubation period for FMD virus has a range between one and 12 days. [11] [12] The disease is characterized by high fever that declines rapidly after two to three days, blisters inside the mouth that lead to excessive secretion of stringy or foamy saliva and to drooling, and blisters on the feet that may rupture and cause lameness.

  6. Why norovirus is so hard to kill: Here's how to protect ... - AOL

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    It spreads fast and far on surfaces and through the air in tiny droplets of vomit. Most people fully recover, but only after days of misery. Most people fully recover, but only after days of misery.

  7. These Pictures Will Help You Identify the Most Common ... - AOL

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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease What it looks like : Hand, foot, and mouth disease is named for its characteristic flat, red spots that appear on the palms, soles of the feet, and around the mouth.

  8. 2018 Malaysia HFMD outbreak - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] Since then, recurrent cyclical epidemics of HFMD have occurred in the country every two to three years. [6] While the root cause behind the recurrence of the disease remains a mystery, another factor that has been identified as increasing the spread of the disease among children is travel to neighbouring countries with high infection ...

  9. Dozens of Duke students diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth ...

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    The mild but highly contagious viral infection has spread to at least 60 students on campus, the Duke Chronicle first reported. Dozens of Duke students diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease ...