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Infectious disease sweeps Kolkata schools
Prithvijit Mitra, TNN | Oct 3, 2012, 02.25AM IST
KOLKATA: Just when the city was starting to breathe easy after a tough battle with dengue over the last couple of months, here comes a shocker. Doctors say thousands of children are battling with another disease that has symptoms similar to dengue. That kids are more vulnerable to the hand, foot and mouth disease has left parents and doctors across the city worried.
Paediatrician Shantanu Ray say he has never come across so many hand, foot and mouth cases in Kolkata before. "Most have been extremely severe. The rashes are taking at least a week to go. It's leading to a complete loss of appetite, weakness and fever. Lack of awareness has made things worse. Parents of affected children are often sending their children to school mistaking it to be ordinary body rashes. It has hastened the spread of the disease," he adds.
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Prithvijit Mitra, TNN | Oct 3, 2012, 02.25AM IST
KOLKATA: Just when the city was starting to breathe easy after a tough battle with dengue over the last couple of months, here comes a shocker. Doctors say thousands of children are battling with another disease that has symptoms similar to dengue. That kids are more vulnerable to the hand, foot and mouth disease has left parents and doctors across the city worried.
Paediatrician Shantanu Ray say he has never come across so many hand, foot and mouth cases in Kolkata before. "Most have been extremely severe. The rashes are taking at least a week to go. It's leading to a complete loss of appetite, weakness and fever. Lack of awareness has made things worse. Parents of affected children are often sending their children to school mistaking it to be ordinary body rashes. It has hastened the spread of the disease," he adds.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...eeps-Kolkata-schools/articleshow/16647312.cms