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'Ghost virus' affecting children throughout the Midlands
Posted: Jul 08, 2014 6:18 PM EDT Updated: Jul 08, 2014 6:27 PM EDT
By Mike DeSumma
Kids usually show signs of illness quickly.
At St. Michael's Early Learning Center, the staff cares for more than 50 children each day and what staffers are seeing are cases of kids catching a fast-acting illness.
"The virus itself," St. Michael's Early Learning Center Director Rebecca Maitland said, "the hand, the foot and mouth, it's aptly named because it shows up on the hands, the feet, and in the mouth and sometimes, it's just inside the mouth. So, you don't even see it at all."
Maitland said about a dozen children have come down with the sickness in the past six weeks. In some cases, they've also developed a high fever. There are also small outbreaks that doctors say can be common with hand, foot, and mouth during the summer...
'Ghost virus' affecting children throughout the Midlands
Posted: Jul 08, 2014 6:18 PM EDT Updated: Jul 08, 2014 6:27 PM EDT
By Mike DeSumma
Kids usually show signs of illness quickly.
At St. Michael's Early Learning Center, the staff cares for more than 50 children each day and what staffers are seeing are cases of kids catching a fast-acting illness.
"The virus itself," St. Michael's Early Learning Center Director Rebecca Maitland said, "the hand, the foot and mouth, it's aptly named because it shows up on the hands, the feet, and in the mouth and sometimes, it's just inside the mouth. So, you don't even see it at all."
Maitland said about a dozen children have come down with the sickness in the past six weeks. In some cases, they've also developed a high fever. There are also small outbreaks that doctors say can be common with hand, foot, and mouth during the summer...