KUANTAN: A total of 3,760 cases of hand, foot and mouth diseases (HFMD) have been recorded in Pahang from January until June 7, a 16-fold increase compared with only 233 cases reported in the same period last year.
Pahang Health Department director Datuk Dr Nor Azimi Yunus said that of the 3,760 cases, 175 cases, or 4.7 per cent, were proliferation in pre-schools, while the remaining 3,585 cases occurred sporadically.
She was speaking to reporters after conducting examinations and health education on HFMD, at childcare centres and kindergartens in the Kuantan district here, on Wednesday . During the inspections, she said that health personnel also taught care centre operators to conduct screenings at the entry door to ensure that toddlers who turned up did not have symptoms of HFMD, such as fever, blisters on the hand, foot, mouth and tongue or poor appetite.
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