How to Use hand, foot and mouth disease in a Sentence

hand, foot and mouth disease

noun
  • What is hand, foot and mouth disease, and what causes it?
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There is no specific medicine that cures hand, foot and mouth disease.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • When teenagers or adults do get hand, foot and mouth disease, symptoms are usually mild or may not appear at all.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Buckingham said doctors later told him that while the sepsis pneumonia caused his liver and kidney failure, his heart failure was brought on by coxsackievirus, which commonly causes hand, foot and mouth disease.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Experts are now warning that the declines in vaccine coverage in the United States has led to notable increases in several diseases, including measles, whooping cough and hand, foot and mouth disease.
    — Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Virginia Department of Health is also reporting significant increases in emergency department and urgent care visits for hand, foot and mouth disease.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Most respiratory viruses, including Covid-19, flu and RSV, act through the indirect pathway, Roberts said, while enterovirus strains – related to the viruses that cause hand, foot and mouth disease – can directly infect the heart muscle.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Compton's youngest daughter, Scottie, 17 months, had been diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), the Bussin' with the Boys podcast co-host, 36, announced on X on Friday, May 8.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026

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