Key result
Hand-foot-mouth disease outbreaks exhibit distinct seasonality and primarily affect kindergartens where timely reporting aids control.
Timely reporting is key for controlling HFMD clusters and outbreaks, which predominantly affect kindergartens and show seasonal variation.
Timely reporting may aid HFMD cluster control in kindergartens; leaves open subtype-specific prevention strategies.
The clusters and outbreaks of HFMD happened in Jiangsu province showed an obvious feature of seasonality. The predominant types or subtypes of the virus varied in different years. Kindergartens were the hard-hit places of HFMD clusters and outbreaks. Timely report of the disease appeared the key point regarding the control of HFMD clusters and outbreaks.
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Fan et al. (2016) studied this question. Hand-foot-mouth disease outbreaks in Jiangsu province exhibited distinct seasonality and varying viral subtypes, primarily affecting kindergartens where timely reporting was key for disease control.
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