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What is hand foot and mouth disease?

What does it look like and what is the cause?

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Bob

A human viral illness, mostly affecting children, causing fever and blisters in the mouth. It should not be confused with foot-and-mouth, which only affects animals and is caused by different viruses.

01:27, 15 April 2011

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