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- enterovirus which lives in digestive tract, and is highly contagious
- outbreaks worse in summer and fall, but is a self-limited illness
- causes mild flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, sore throat. with fever usually lasting less than 3 days
- hand, foot, and mouth disease: syndrome of painful blisters in oropharynx and plams of hands and soles of feet
- herpangina: painful blisters in oropharynx, usually posterior in location
- hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: eye pain with injected conjunctivia
- serious complications include: viral meningitis and encephalitis, myocarditis, and secondary bacterial infections
References
Pediatrics Text 19th edition, Nelson