Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Enterovirus+outbreak+in+Finland/1135259404966
Enterovirus, which causes meningitis, continues to spread throughout Finland. However, no major clusters of the disease have been seen as was the case in July. Nonetheless, the disease has spread from western and southern areas into the whole country...
...Another disease spread by another type of enterovirus is hand, foot, and mouth disease (which is unrelated to foot and mouth disease suffered by sheep and cattle), which mainly affects children.
Paediatrician Eeva Salo of the Children?s Hospital of the Helsinki University Central Hospital says there are quite a number of cases.
Both diseases are raging in the late summer. However, the hand, foot and mouth disease seems milder than it was two years ago, when some patients actually had their nails fall out...
Enterovirus, which causes meningitis, continues to spread throughout Finland. However, no major clusters of the disease have been seen as was the case in July. Nonetheless, the disease has spread from western and southern areas into the whole country...
...Another disease spread by another type of enterovirus is hand, foot, and mouth disease (which is unrelated to foot and mouth disease suffered by sheep and cattle), which mainly affects children.
Paediatrician Eeva Salo of the Children?s Hospital of the Helsinki University Central Hospital says there are quite a number of cases.
Both diseases are raging in the late summer. However, the hand, foot and mouth disease seems milder than it was two years ago, when some patients actually had their nails fall out...