29 Bangkok schools suspend classes following HFMD outbreak

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012
29 Bangkok schools suspend classes following HFMD outbreak

At least 29 schools in Bangkok have suspended some of their classes or shut down their whole facilities in the wake of the hand, foot, and mouth disease or HFMD outbreak.

 

“In Bangkok, most patients are young children aged not over four years old,” Dr Wongwat Liewlak said Tuesday as the head of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Communicable Diseases Control Division.
According to the Public Health Ministry, 12,581 people have come down with the HMFD in Thailand between January 1 and July 9 this year. There is no report of casualties. 
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