REPRINTED FROM CONCRETE OPENINGS | VOL.18 | NUM.2 | JUNE 2009. TECH tAlK. Tech Talk is a regular feature of Concrete Openings magazine, focusing on equipment, maintenance and operational issues of. interest to concrete cutting contractors. Readers wishing to have a particular subject addressed can call or email CSDA with. their suggestions at 727-577-5004 or rhitchen@concreteopenings.com.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is an illness that causes sores in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet, and sometimes the buttocks and legs. The sores may be painful. The illness usually doesn't last more than a week or so. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is common in children but can also occur in adults.
1 Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a virus (usually Coxsackie virus A16). 2  It causes blisters on the hands, feet, in the mouth. 3  Blisters can also be in the nappy area of young children.4  Hand, foot and mouth disease can be caused by several other viruses. The fever can be high, but often is mild. 2  Blisters on the hands and feet, and ulcers or blisters in the mouth appear 1-2 days after the first symptoms and may last for 2 â 7 days.