WEEKS into 2025, the Philippines is now seeing a surge in hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) cases with over 1,500 recorded ...

Hand, foot, and mouth disease in children is a highly transmissible viral infection, particularly in young ones. Fever is the first symptom, followed by rashes on the lips, hands, and feet.

The City Health Office (CHO) of San Fernando on Wednesday reported 14 suspected cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in seven barangays from January 1 t ...

Health officials are monitoring closely a sharp rise in Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases in Region 1, after 253 cases were recorded from January 1 to 18 this 2025, compared to only 41 cases ...

Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr. has issued a public warning against hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) after five suspected cases in this city in Pampanga were reported. The five ...

The rash on the hands and feet is usually not sore or itchy, although it can be. The usual incubation time for hand, foot and mouth is three to five days — the child will most likely pick it up ...

Angeles City issues a health advisory to the public amid reports of five suspected cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Aside from hygiene reminders, the city government also starts disinfecting sc ...

An exanthem is any eruptive skin rash that may be associated with ... which progress to form punched-out erosions. Hand–foot–mouth disease is a distinct monomorphous exanthem that is most ...

The Provincial Government of Bulacan, through the Provincial Health Office (PHO), has launched round-the-clock surveillance ...

Sebastian Gollnow/dpa/picture alliance Humans are rarely affected by foot-and-mouth disease, which is sometimes confused with the similarly named hand, foot and mouth disease that affects children.

Of the 48 cases, 27 are new. Most of the persons afflicted by the disease are children ages 10 years old and below.