HFMD cases in Singapore remain high

Via Xinhua :

" SINGAPORE, July 2 : The incidence of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) in Singapore remained high in the last three months, with the recent month-long school holiday failing to break the chain of infection, local media reported on Friday.

This is largely because the epidemic seems to be hitting children aged two to four in childcare centers, which had stayed open during the June school break, local newspaper The Straits Times reported.

More than 13,100 people have come down with the illness in the first half of the year, a jump of about 36 percent. In the last five years, the number of cases for the period hovered around 9, 649."