The viral illness typically affects children aged five and younger, with symptoms lasting about a week. There's no known effective treatment.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is highly contagious, with symptoms ranging from fever and a rash to sore throat and diarrhea, ...

Symptoms include fever, painful mouth sores, sore throat, and a distinctive red, spotted rash on hands and feet. The illness ...

Hand, foot, and mouth spreads easily through families and day cares as the virus can live in an infected person's body for weeks or even months after symptoms have gone away.

Unfortunately, yes. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is caused by several different viruses (most commonly a type of coxsackievirus), so getting it once doesn't guarantee you're in the clear forever.

This week, pediatricians at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing hand, foot and mouth, poison ivy and swimming-related rashes. They’re also see asthma exacerbations due in part to ...

If you suspect your child has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, PHCE generally advises parents to keep their child home during the initial days of illness to minimize exposure to other children.

Burns adds that in recent weeks, their office has seen a large number of patients coming in with hand, foot, and mouth. "We're seeing a lot of it now compared to previous just because of kids all ...

First described in 1948, “hand, foot and mouth disease” is a common illness in the summer months, predominantly found in infants and children under the age of 5, but one that can also affect ...

Lubbock Public Health reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease cases in a few daycares across the Hub City. Rachel ...

This week, pediatricians at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing hand, foot and mouth, poison ivy and swimming-related rashes. They’re also see asthma exacerbations due in part to ...

Hand, foot and mouth is contagious, but it’s important to remember it’s spread by saliva/secretions and poop; the rash is not contagious to touch.