hand, foot, and mouth disease

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(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

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No references found			Chinese media last month said doctors and officials in a county in the central province of Henan did not report an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease, which had already killed 19 children nationwide. China says no cover-up in disease outbreak by AFP / AFP Asian Edition Chinese media last month said doctors and officials in a county in the central province of Henan did not report an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease, which had already killed 19 children nationwide. China says no cover-up in disease outbreak by AFP / AFP Global Edition Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a member of the family Picornaviridae and the genus Enterovirus, is a common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease in children. Enterovirus 71 outbreak, Brunei by AbuBakar, Sazaly; Sam, I-Ching; Yusof, Jaliha; Lim, Meng Keang; Misbah, Suzana; MatRahim, NorAziyah; / Emerging Infectious Diseases			Hand plant hand press hand pump hand puppet Hand running Hand sail hand saw Hand screen Hand screw hand setting hand shovel Hand staff Hand stamp hand throttle hand to hand hand to mouth hand tool hand towel Hand tree hand truck Hand vise hand waving hand wear Hand work hand's-breadth hand, foot, and mouth disease hand- hand-build hand-crafted hand-down hand-dye hand-eye coordination hand-foot-and-mouth disease hand-held hand-held computer hand-held microcomputer hand-hewn hand-hole Hand-hole plate hand-knit hand-knitted hand-loomed hand-luggage hand-me-down hand-off hand-operated hand-out hand-pick hand-picked hand-piece hand-rear			Hand washing Hand Washing With Soap hand waving Hand weapon hand wear Hand Weeding Hand Wheel Hand whistling Hand whistling hand winch Hand work hand wringer hand wringing Hand wringing Rett syndrome Hand wringing Rett syndrome Hand writing Hand Writing Recognition hand's breadth Hand's disease Hand's disease Hand's disease Hand's disease hand's-breadth Hand, Augustus Noble Hand, Billings Learned hand, foot & mouth syndrome Hand, foot and mouth disease Hand, foot and mouth disease Hand, foot and mouth disease Hand, foot and mouth disease hand, foot, and mouth disease Hand, Learned Hand, Wayland Debs hand- hand-and-foot counter hand-and-foot monitor Hand-Arm Vibration Hand-arm vibration syndrome Hand-arm vibration syndrome Hand-arm vibration syndrome Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery Hand-axe Hand-ball Hand-ball hand-blown Hand-book Hand-book hand-build Hand-Bunched Pressed Rolled Hand-coding Hand-Coloured Illustrations hand-crafted Hand-cut goose quill Hand-cut goose quill Hand-cut goose quill hand-down hand-dressed stone hand-dye Hand-Emplaced Acoustic Intrusion Detector

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