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Nursery warns parents of illness

Thu, 20 Jul 2017

A nursery is urging parents to be on the look out for the symptoms of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease following an outbreak.

Sandcastles Kindergarten says it's had a few cases of the illness withing the nursery.

It's asking parent to keep children off if they are displaying the symptoms, which include cold-like symptoms, high temperature and pin prick red spots that blister.

The illness is common in children but can also affect adults, and usually clears up by itself withing seven to 10 days.

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