{"id":621,"date":"2017-10-16T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-services\/?p=621"},"modified":"2021-06-24T02:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:59:45","slug":"health-alert-coxsackie-virus-10-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/2017\/10\/16\/health-alert-coxsackie-virus-10-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Alert: Coxsackie Virus (10\/16\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p>We are experiencing a cluster of cases of&nbsp; also known as Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. The illness is typically mild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It usually presents with fever, runny nose and sore throat followed by a blister-like rash in the hands, feet, and mouth. Symptoms may last several days. A person is contagious until the fever and blister-like lesions disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you develop any of the above, please call to make appointment to be seen at the health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attention to hygiene is very important to limit spreading. Practice thorough hand washing and avoiding sharing any drinks\/utensils or kissing to help prevent illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NY Department of Health Fact Sheet:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/diseases\/communicable\/hand_foot_mouth\/fact_sheet.htm\">Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (Coxsackie viral infection)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hand-foot-mouth\/\">Information from the Centers for Disease Control<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Posted on&nbsp;<time datetime=\"2017-10-16\">Monday, October 16, 2017<\/time><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are experiencing a cluster of cases of Coxsackie Virus also known as Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. The illness is typically mild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/health-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}