There has been an increase in the number of children in Fairfax County, Virginia, that are being diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease.
There have been a total of six cases in Fairfax County, five of those in the last two months, and health officials say it’s very contagious.
“We’re seeing a lot of it right now,” said Tiffany Kimbrough, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University. “It’s a common virus that we often see spread in the summer months.”…