Deaths Among Children During an Outbreak of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease—Taiwan, Republic of China, April-July 1998

Young children in Taiwan with hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) during the April-July 1998 outbreak, including approximately 90,000 reported cases, ~320 hospitalizations with suspected meningitis, encephalitis, or acute flaccid paralysis, and at least 55 deaths.

Death (defined as refractory shock following a prodromal acute illness characterized by fever or rash in a previously healthy child)hard clinical