Statewide Outbreak of Hand, Foot and Mouth in School Age Kids

[Anonymous]

High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

[Anonymous]

My kids, 7th grade and 10th grade, have both had it recently - one of them has had it a couple times this year. Recurrent HFM isn't common, but we seem to get the uncommon stuff in our house.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here. It’s home through our pre-k through 2nd grade like wildfire. I have it now and one of the other teachers had it a few weeks ago. Not fun.

[Anonymous]

Let’s all remember how miserable HFM truly is after someone develops a vaccine. And then remember that shingles and measles is 100x worse.

[Anonymous]

Doctors are sending kids back after a couple days when they should be out for 7 to 10 days.

[Anonymous]

It’s also running through college campuses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

What about pools?

[Anonymous]

I know a kid who caught it from a visit to the pediatrician's office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doctors are sending kids back after a couple days when they should be out for 7 to 10 days.

Are you joking? 7-10 days? It’s treated exactly the same as any other cough/ cold/ flu like illness. Fever free for 24 hours and improving symptoms. You can shed coxsackie virus for a month. Surely you aren’t advocating a kid who had a sore throat and fever for a day, and a mild rash on his hands that fully resolved in 5 days, sit out of school for the following month.

HFMD thankfully doesn’t tend to cause severe sequelae the way other viruses with more strict return to school policies do (such as chicken pox , back in the day, since it could be associated with poor outcomes occasionally). That’s also why no one is going to develop a vaccine for it. It sucks to get but it’s largely harmless.

[Anonymous]

Once the rash appears the kid is miserable for a few days but not contagious anymore. 1-2 days is plenty. My son had it over the summer and couldn’t eat anything but ice cream, yogurt and popsicles for a few days but he didn’t even have a fever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

Good lord! That's crazy! The last reported case of this was before most of us were even born!!!!!!

What's next, the plague will be brought back from some cave overseas??

This unchecked immigration HAS TO STOP! Completely! There needs to be quarrantine facilities for ALL coming into the country.

Things like this should be traced by the CDC and find the orgin person who brought it into the country, then trace it back to where the outbreak came from and treat those people to erradicate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

Good lord! That's crazy! The last reported case of this was before most of us were even born!!!!!!

What's next, the plague will be brought back from some cave overseas??

This unchecked immigration HAS TO STOP! Completely! There needs to be quarrantine facilities for ALL coming into the country.

Things like this should be traced by the CDC and find the orgin person who brought it into the country, then trace it back to where the outbreak came from and treat those people to erradicate it.

Stop it.

This is not from "immigration," you POS idiot. Since you went to immigration your boy Trump has done shit at the border hence OPIODs and other drugs are coming in like crazy, killing people.

It is 100% from Anti Vax home grown little Christian National twats. HFM always spreads. The massive spread is occuring because of the stupidity of Christian Nationalists.

This is nothing compared to what is going to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

Good lord! That's crazy! The last reported case of this was before most of us were even born!!!!!!

What's next, the plague will be brought back from some cave overseas??

This unchecked immigration HAS TO STOP! Completely! There needs to be quarrantine facilities for ALL coming into the country.

Things like this should be traced by the CDC and find the orgin person who brought it into the country, then trace it back to where the outbreak came from and treat those people to erradicate it.

Stop it.

This is not from "immigration," you POS idiot. Since you went to immigration your boy Trump has done shit at the border hence OPIODs and other drugs are coming in like crazy, killing people.

It is 100% from Anti Vax home grown little Christian National twats. HFM always spreads. The massive spread is occuring because of the stupidity of Christian Nationalists.

This is nothing compared to what is going to come.

What does HFM have to do with anti-vaxxers? We don’t have a vaccine for it.

[Anonymous]

My 7 year old, toddler and I have it now. This is our first time with HFM. My toddler has it badly in his mouth and barely eat. The blisters are pretty painful on me and I have virus symptoms like body aches and fatigue. I’ve heard of a couple other kids at our school with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school kid was sent home last week. Started with a couple of tiny blisters. I wouldn’t have thought it was anything. It’s now all over soles of feet, palms, inside mouth and even in armpits. I heard of at least a couple more cases at our school.

Virginia Department of Health is reporting it is a statewide outbreak. 165 outbreaks (multiple cases per cluster) in the last 6 months - up from 45-60 in a typical year.

It’s highly contagious and can be spread for days/weeks even after fever subsides. Get out your bleach and hand sanitizer! Easily spread on surfaces as well as by touching, coughing or sneezing.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/18/its-miserable-hand-foot-mouth-disease-spreading-rapidly-this-state-officials-say/?outputType=amp

Good lord! That's crazy! The last reported case of this was before most of us were even born!!!!!!

What's next, the plague will be brought back from some cave overseas??

This unchecked immigration HAS TO STOP! Completely! There needs to be quarrantine facilities for ALL coming into the country.

Things like this should be traced by the CDC and find the orgin person who brought it into the country, then trace it back to where the outbreak came from and treat those people to erradicate it.

Stop it.

This is not from "immigration," you POS idiot. Since you went to immigration your boy Trump has done shit at the border hence OPIODs and other drugs are coming in like crazy, killing people.

It is 100% from Anti Vax home grown little Christian National twats. HFM always spreads. The massive spread is occuring because of the stupidity of Christian Nationalists.

This is nothing compared to what is going to come.

What does HFM have to do with anti-vaxxers? We don’t have a vaccine for it.

Anti Vaxers are why this is spreading they refuse to keep their kids home. They refuse to go to qualified doctors for good diagnosis. Nothing to do with vaccines it goes hand in hand with their utter stupidity.