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hand, foot, and mouth disease |
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hand, foot, and mouth disease n (Medicine / Pathology) (Medicine) a usually mild disease, mainly affecting children under seven, in which the sufferers develop mouth ulcers accompanied by blisters or rashes on their hands and feet. Caused by the Coxsackie virus A16, it has no known cure. Abbreviation HFMD How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In addition, although it poses an economic threat to livestock producers, it does not pose a health risk to humans (and is distinct from the hand, foot, and mouth disease recently prevalent in Malaysia). Outbreaks of hand, foot, and mouth disease by enterovirus 71: high incidence of complication disorders of central nervous system. The outbreak was recognized because of a large number of hand, foot, and mouth disease cases and the rapid deaths of children with the disease. |
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