Hand, food, and mouth disease is caused by intestinal viruses of thePicornaviridae family. The most common strains causing HFMD areCoxsackie Avirus and Enterovirus 71. It usually affects infants and children and is extremely uncommon in adults. Symptoms include fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sore throat, rash followed by ulcers and blisters on palms of hands and soles of feet, and oral ulcers. There is no specific treatment for the disease; only supportive and symptomatic treatment.
From the Centers for Disease Control
Hand, foot, and mouth disease
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