Features from this Week: Hand, Foot, & Mouth Disease, Environmental Health, Solve Food Outbreaks, and More!

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Symptoms and Diagnosis of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease.

                      Week in Review

 Symptoms of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease usually include fever, mouth sores, and skin rash. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is common in infants and children younger than five years old. Most children have mild symptoms for 7 to 10 days.

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                    Environmental Health
When your environment is safe and healthy, you are more likely to stay healthy. But when your environment exposes you to dangerous events or harmful amounts of toxic substances, your health can be affected.

How the environment affects your health >En Español >

Solve Food Outbreaks
Finding the source of an outbreak is important because the contaminated food could still be in stores, restaurants, or kitchens and could make more people sick. You can help solve these outbreaks by providing vital clues to disease detectives.

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                    Lower Kid’s Cancer Risk
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common virus that is passed from one person to another during sex. It can cause cervical and other kinds of cancer. Some cancers of the vulva, vagina, penis, anus, and oropharynx (back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils) are caused by HPV.

Get your kids vaccinated against HPV >En Español

Fragile X
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a rare genetic disorder that has a major effect on a person’s life. It is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, yet there are still many unanswered questions about its effect on the day-to-day lives of people living with FXS and their families.

Learning FXS >   

                      Disease of the Week

                    Fragile X Syndrome

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                    SARS-CoV-2 

    Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. 
   As of July 17, 2020

In the United States, there have been 3,555,877 confirmed cases of COVID-19 detected through U.S. public health surveillance systems in 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

        U.S. Cases

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