Updated 15:51, Sunday, 12/05/2010 (GMT 7)
Nhan Dan - The provinces of Ca Mau health sector, the province has so far detected and treated 315 cases of hand-foot-mouth disease, more than doubled over the same period the year before this night.
Most cases of this disease mainly in Ca Mau City, the Cai Nuoc and Dam Doi districts. This disease have a tendency to increase in area. In the last week in November and early December, the province's hospitals to receive treatment close to 40 cases, up 15 cases from the previous week.
Hand-foot-mouth disease usually occurs in children aged 6 to 36 months. Virus can spread rapidly from child to other children, mainly through the mouth, especially in preschools and kindergartens. There is currently no cure or vaccine to prevent this disease. The first manifestation of the disease are children fever, fatigue, anorexia, with expression as red spots in mouth then into water and bumps appear on the palms of the hands and feet of children.
Therefore, strengthening the dissemination of disease prevention and community hygiene in the warm drink, activities, regular monitoring of the abnormal child on the body, and to promptly take the child to the grassroots medical treatment was necessary measures to prevent the disease spreading, spreading.
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