Brooke Edmonds
September, 30, 2010
9:13pm
In South Bombay, recently a disease has started affecting many children in schools all around the area. This illness that has been going around is known as the hand foot and mouth disease (HFMD). HFMD is a common viral illness of infants and children. The disease causes fever and blister-like sores in the mouth and/or a skin rash. A child’s mother from one of the schools states “I don’t know from where my child contracted the disease from. However, the doctor suggested us to remain indoors as it is highly infectious. She was unable to eat properly due to throat infection, so the best thing for her was to stay away from school.” Doctors are saying that the disease just popped up and that it has resulted in many absentees in school. After more research some doctors are saying they don’t think the disease is as dangerous as they thought and that kids can start going back to school with certain precautions. But some doctors argue that this is not true and kids should continue to stay home.
When I came across this news article, it caught my eye because I had never heard of this hand foot and mouth disease and I was interested to find out about it. As I read the article I was surprised because it seems to be a big problem in South Bombay. This article gave a good description of what the disease does to children and it said that is leaves sores in different places all over the body. It did not actually tell us what causes the disease which would have been useful to know so people could try to prevent catching the disease.
2 comments:
I think that Bombay should take all the necessary precautions to keep it from spreading. Whether or not the children seem like they are ready for sure, taking time for them to heal is essential. It is important for the disease not to spread more, so children should be kept indoors and out of school until it is certain that they are not longer contagious.
i ifeel soo bad for these kids i think that each kid should start a school donation and we send all the money to bombay :)
i have a song
ohhhhh let these kids be happy ohhh let those kids be cappy thats it
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