Disease

Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - USA

Florida - Over the past week, Florida State University Health Services has identified more than a dozen cases of hand, foot and mouth disease.

New Jersey - An outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease has struck in at least four schools across New Jersey. The first outbreak seemingly came out of nowhere in late August: Fifteen football players from Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey had come down with coxsackievirus, also known as hand-foot-and-mouth disease, forcing the cancellation of the team’s final scrimmage. Thirteen days later, a similar eruption of HFMD struck 16 miles away at Pequannock High School, postponing the football team’s season-opener. And now this week comes news of the the latest developments: More sudden outbreaks of HFMD among soccer players at Kinnelon High and Hunterdon Central High, schools located 55 miles apart in different counties.