March 1, 2003Emerging infectious diseasesOpen Access

Enterovirus 71 Outbreaks, Taiwan: Occurrence and Recognition

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Patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease or herpangina during the EV71 outbreaks in Taiwan, including…

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TLTzou‐Yien LinBoston Children's Hospital STShiing–Jer TwuTaipei Medical University MHMei-Shang HoInstitute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

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EV71 may cause rapid pediatric cardiopulmonary collapse; leaves open need for surveillance, antivirals, and vaccines.

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Patients with hand, foot, and mouth disease or herpangina during the EV71 outbreaks in Taiwan (1998-2001), including 129,106 reported cases in 1998, with 405 severe cases and 78 deaths, primarily in children <5 years old.

The 1998 EV71 outbreak in Taiwan highlights the potential for fulminant cardiopulmonary collapse in young children, emphasizing the need for global surveillance, antiviral development, and vaccination.

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Lin et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a773c5bdf493903fd1ec4a2 https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0903.020285

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