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SINGAPORE: With weekly Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) numbers hitting their highest level since June 2016, the Health Ministry (MOH) has “strongly urged” parents not to bring their children to school or any other crowded public places if their children are exhibiting symptoms.
Common symptoms include fever, mouth ulcers and rashes on the palms, soles or buttocks. The ministry's advice comes in the midst of a rise in the number of HFMD cases since February this year.
According to a weekly notice on infectious diseases put up by MOH on its website, numbers peaked at 1,105 cases in the week ending Mar 10. This was a 42 per cent increase from the week before, and a 65 per cent increase from two weeks prior.
Since that peak, the number dropped 14 per cent to 946 in the latest recorded period of Mar 11 to Mar 17. The last time the weekly figures peaked was in 2016, when numbers hit as high as 1,344 in May, before falling to 1,034 the following month.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-measures-to-minimise-spread-of-hfmd-10080248
Common symptoms include fever, mouth ulcers and rashes on the palms, soles or buttocks. The ministry's advice comes in the midst of a rise in the number of HFMD cases since February this year.
According to a weekly notice on infectious diseases put up by MOH on its website, numbers peaked at 1,105 cases in the week ending Mar 10. This was a 42 per cent increase from the week before, and a 65 per cent increase from two weeks prior.
Since that peak, the number dropped 14 per cent to 946 in the latest recorded period of Mar 11 to Mar 17. The last time the weekly figures peaked was in 2016, when numbers hit as high as 1,344 in May, before falling to 1,034 the following month.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-measures-to-minimise-spread-of-hfmd-10080248
