Kindergarten closed after boy, 2, dies from foot-and-mouth disease

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Kindergarten closed after boy, 2, dies from foot-and-mouth disease

By The Nation

 

 

A municipality kindergarten in Sa Kaew’s Muang district has been closed after a two-year-old boy died from foot-and-mouth disease.

 

The elder sister of the boy now feels sick and was sent to Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok.

 

Captain Apinan Songkramchai, a provincial commander, said that the Kilosong Tessaban kindergarten was ordered closed on Tuesday and public health officials and staff are now cleaning the premises with disinfectants.

 

The boy, whose name was not released, lived in Aranyaprathet district and had been suffering from the foot-and-mouth virus for about four days. His death alerted authorities which led to the closure of the kindergarten, Apinan said.

 

Meanwhile Kornchai Srikoon, the mayor of Muang Aranyaprathet municipality, said that he was alerted of the death of the pupil on Tuesday afternoon.

 

At a temple, the boy’s father said that he usually took his children to Rongklua border Market and he suspected that his boy caught the disease there.

 

He revealed that his daughter, aged 4, now feel sick with the same symptoms as her brother, so his wife took their daughter to hospital on Tuesday night.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30318718

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-6-21

[Bluespunk]

If it is true the child died of foot and mouth disease, that is very unusual.

 

Catching it alone is difficult for humans.

 

Dying from it is an incredibly rare occurrence.

Edited June 21, 2017 by Bluespunk

[RBOP]

is foot-mouth disease different from hand-foot-mouth disease? 

[Krataiboy]

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common viral illness that usually affects infants and children younger than five. However, it can sometimes occur in older children and adults.

 

Typical symptoms include fever, mouth sores, and a skin rash. The virus which affects humans is different from that which attacks cattle.

 

Source: US CDC

[RBOP]

the article says foot and mouse disease which is disease of hooved animals. The last case of a human catching foot and mouth disease was in 1966 in the UK. I suspect The Nation and ThaiVisa made typo errors and this is HFMD which is very common and very contagious but its very rarely a serious illness.  

[thhMan]

Thats the problem.. Its hard to follow the news, when there is always the "iggly" feeling that those writing the stories have no grasp of presenting the facts properly

 

Edited June 21, 2017 by thhMan

[Prbkk]

Poor little fella. In a country full of obscenely rich tycoons, infant health is not what it could/should be. 

[starky]

Why was he left to suffer in this condition for 4 days? Was he hospitalised at the time? Receiving proper care? This is a tragic story and fully preventable if there was any neglect by parents/ doctors. I may be reading it wrong and hope that his sister does not suffer the same fate. 

[tominbkk]

Coming from a school background, the important thing is for a school to communicate immediately if there is something going around.  Hand Foot disease, lice, whatever.  Get the nurse in there with the thermometer and checking all palms and feet, informing all parents, and closing for a couple days to thoroughly sanitize all classroom and school equipment.  The last thing you want to do is try and cover it up and not inform parents.  They might think their tyke has a regular fever then things can get serious.   But to do things right the school 'loses some face', and lots of Poo Yais who own schools don't want that.

[Scott]

18 minutes ago, starky said:

Why was he left to suffer in this condition for 4 days? Was he hospitalised at the time? Receiving proper care? This is a tragic story and fully preventable if there was any neglect by parents/ doctors. I may be reading it wrong and hope that his sister does not suffer the same fate. 

I worked in schools and every year this was a problem with the Nursery and lower KG level students.   If a class (of approximately 30 students) had 3 or more cases, the class was closed and students weren't allowed back until the classroom had been disinfected.   If 1/4 of the classes were closed then the building was closed and disinfected.   The policy was directed by the District MOH office.  

 

The Nursery was closed pretty much at the first sign of the disease because the really little kids are much more likely to have bigger problems with an infection than the slightly older ones.   So a 2 year old would usually be at greater risk of complications than a 4 year old.   The immune system is just not well developed in the young ones.  

 

The younger students tend to put things in their mouth, such as the toys, and they spend a lot of time crawling on the floor, so contact with the virus is greatly increased.  

 

The biggest problem I saw was that it was the class teacher who inspected the students.  I once saw a teacher with a face mask, plastic gloves and a flashlight using a tongue depressor to check the inside of students' mouths for sores.  Unfortunately, the same tongue depressor was used on all of the students.   Needless to say, that class had a lot of students who contracted the disease.

[wakeupplease]

Developing country so what do you expect but not in 2017.

[marquis22]

5 hours ago, RBOP said:

the article says foot and mouse disease which is disease of hooved animals. The last case of a human catching foot and mouth disease was in 1966 in the UK. I suspect The Nation and ThaiVisa made typo errors and this is HFMD which is very common and very contagious but its very rarely a serious illness.  

Yep, those damn typo errors crop up all the time like mice in a plague.  :-)

[williamgeorgeallen]

when my son was at school in thailand we used to get information about foot and mouth disease quite often. i told my father who is a farmer in new zealand about it and he was surprised that humans could get it. leaves me wondering if it is the same disease as the one contracted by animals.

[RBOP]

8 hours ago, Scott said:

I worked in schools and every year this was a problem with the Nursery and lower KG level students.   If a class (of approximately 30 students) had 3 or more cases, the class was closed and students weren't allowed back until the classroom had been disinfected.   If 1/4 of the classes were closed then the building was closed and disinfected.   The policy was directed by the District MOH office.  

 

The Nursery was closed pretty much at the first sign of the disease because the really little kids are much more likely to have bigger problems with an infection than the slightly older ones.   So a 2 year old would usually be at greater risk of complications than a 4 year old.   The immune system is just not well developed in the young ones.  

 

The younger students tend to put things in their mouth, such as the toys, and they spend a lot of time crawling on the floor, so contact with the virus is greatly increased.  

 

The biggest problem I saw was that it was the class teacher who inspected the students.  I once saw a teacher with a face mask, plastic gloves and a flashlight using a tongue depressor to check the inside of students' mouths for sores.  Unfortunately, the same tongue depressor was used on all of the students.   Needless to say, that class had a lot of students who contracted the disease.

Surely your joking about the teacher sharing a tongue depressor between students. Every worker has the right to stop an unsafe act/job. Did you? 

[Scott]

No, I didn't stop her.  I was near the class for other reasons and was not conscious of what she was doing until she was done.   Another teacher was using a pencil to check the inside of the mouth.  

 

I did talk to the principal, who was a registered nurse before going into education, and she had a training session with the staff about the proper technique.  The only people whom they were protecting was themselves.  

 

It doesn't matter much though, even though she (and all the other teachers) were wearing gloves and masks, they were not changing gloves between checking the mouths and hands of the students.  

 

The local Ministry of Health had told the school that the teachers should check all students, but teachers are really not equipped or trained and don't have the time to do that sort of thing when the students are entering the classroom.  

[geovalin]

Hand, foot and mouth disease virus ‘may have caused Cambodia child deaths’

A virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease may have been responsible for some of the mysterious deaths of dozens of children in Cambodia since April, the Health Ministry said in a joint statement with the World Health Organisation (WHO).

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/cambodia/9385783/Hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-virus-may-have-caused-Cambodia-child-deaths.html

2012 article but disease back this year

 

and Sa Kaew is at the border

[tominbkk]

12 hours ago, Scott said:

The biggest problem I saw was that it was the class teacher who inspected the students.  I once saw a teacher with a face mask, plastic gloves and a flashlight using a tongue depressor to check the inside of students' mouths for sores.  Unfortunately, the same tongue depressor was used on all of the students.   Needless to say, that class had a lot of students who contracted the disease.

Holy Crap!

[webfact]

Kindergarten closed for two weeks after boy dies from rare foot-and-mouth disease

 

 

SA KAEW: -- A kindergarten in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district may have to close for two weeks after a two-year-old boy died from foot-and-mouth disease.

 

Dr Apirak Pisutarporn, Sa Kaew medical chief, said that his agency will examine all kindergartens in the province as a preventive measure.

 

In some cases, footandmouth disease is not severe and those infected can recover within five to seven days.

 

However, the case of the Kilosong kindergarten pupil was severe and is extremely rare in Thailand.

 

“Therefore the school will be closed for two weeks, not one as earlier said, to completely pass the incubation period.” The kindergarten was closed on Wednesday after the boy died.

 

“We are examining the source of the disease. From what the parents of the boy said, they got in touch with Cambodians and their children. However it could not be confirmed yet if the disease is from Cambodia,” Apirak said.

 

The boy’s father said earlier that he took the boy and his sister to Klongluek border market in the province many times. 

 

Apirak said he is now seeking information from the Cambodian side to find out if the disease is spreading. 

 

The boy’s sister, who is being treated for the same symptoms in Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, is believed to be recovering.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30318808

 

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[Dumbastheycome]

Is this   "foot and   mouth" or  "hand,foot and   mouth disease?

There is  a  very  significant  difference!

To my  knowledge  the  latter is   limited  to coven hoofed livestock.

Human Hand  foot and  mouth  disease is  not usually  considered  dangerous  and  is  actually  quite  common in  children. Also  very contagious  and  so easily  spread in places  like  Kindergartens.

Never before heard  of it  causing   death.