What Is HFMD?
6. Risk Factors
As mentioned, young children are more likely to catch hand foot and mouth disease than children are. One of the main reasons for this is that they are likely to pick up the virus from objects around them and then ingest the virus after placing their hands in their mouths. Those in day care centers in particular are at a high risk of catching the disease.
Adults can also get the disease, however, and those that work with young children are at a higher risk. Parents with young children are also more likely to pick up the disease. Adults are less likely to catch it, however, because their immune systems will likely have developed the ability to fight the virus.
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