The peak season for enterovirus is between April and June. Six elementary and kindergarten classes in Hualien County were canceled this year for a week due to hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). The Hualien County Health Bureau has therefore been trying to raise children’s awareness about the importance of washing their hands frequently. The bureau held its first educational event at Ming Yih Primary School on April 28. During the event, children and parents did a hand-washing dance to beat the enterovirus monsters.
Bureau Director Hsu Hsiang-ming says that a few cases of enterovirus started appearing toward the end of March. The peak season for enterovirus usually starts in May and lasts until the middle of June, and affects both adults and children alike, Hsu says. As of last week there were a total of six classes in Hualien County that had two children with the enterovirus HFMD all within a week, so classes were automatically canceled for a week, including lower grade elementary school students and kindergarten classes. The cases were concentrated around northern Hualien County. Thus far there have not been any severe cases and hopefully it will stay that way, Hsu says.
According to bureau statistics, the last class that applied to cancel classes for a week was a kindergarten in Hualien City. Classes were canceled on April 21 because three kids had HFMD in the middle of April. The school, including desks and chairs, were all disinfected and classes opened again on April 28.
Hsu says that the bureau and the Hualien Education Department are working together, with school teachers and local health agencies holding events to help raise awareness, hopefully getting children in the habit of washing their hands frequently. Getting them in the practice of following five main steps for washing their hands — wet, scrub, rinse, hold, dry — is the only way to reduce the spread of viruses.
Parents dressed up as cartoon characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Doraemon during the bureau’s enterovirus awareness event at the school on April 28, doing a “wet, scrub, rinse, hold, dry” hand-washing dance with the children, who pretended to be “hand-washing warriors” fighting against the other children who dressed in all black as the enterovirus.
(Liberty Times, Translated by Kyle Jeffcoat)
腸病毒四月到六月間進入高峰期,花蓮今年已有六個國小、幼兒園班級因手足口症停課一週,為此花蓮縣衛生局宣導小朋友勤洗手,四月二十八日在明義國小附幼開跑,小朋友和家長大跳洗手舞、打敗腸病毒。
花蓮縣衛生局長徐祥明說,腸病毒從三月下旬起開始有零星個案,至五、六月中旬達到高峰,大人、小孩都可能被感染,花蓮縣截至上週為止,陸續有六個班級,因該班上在一週內出現有二名腸病毒手足口症病童,因此自動通報停課一週,包括國小低年級、幼兒園都有,集中在花蓮北區,重症個案今年仍維持零個案,希望繼續保持。
衛生局統計,上一個申請停課一週的班級為市區的某幼兒園,四月中旬因班上有三名小朋友出現手足口症,從四月廿一日起停課,校園環境、桌椅進行消毒,四月二十八日恢復上課。
徐祥明說,衛生局和教育處合作,將由學校老師、各鄉鎮衛生所持續進行宣導,希望小朋友養成勤洗手的好習慣,落實洗手五步驟「濕搓沖捧擦」,才能減少病毒傳染。
衛生局宣導腸病毒,四月二十八日在明義國小附設幼兒園舉辦腸病毒宣導,家長扮演海綿寶寶、哆拉A夢等卡通人物,和扮演「洗手小勇士」的孩子大跳「濕搓沖捧擦」洗手舞,要打敗飾演「腸病毒」的黑衣小朋友。
(自由時報記者花孟璟)
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