Preventing infectious hand-foot-mouth disease

A doctor sprays disinfectant in a classroom at Yunpanlu Elementary School in Yaowan Town of Yichang, a city in central China's Hubei Province, May 8, 2008. The Yichang Education Bureau has issued instructions on preventing the infectious hand-foot-mouth disease, and the Health Bureau has implemented the system of daily reporting of cases of the disease.(Xinhua Photo/Liu Baoping)

A drugstore assistant concocts Chinese herbal medicine for preventing the infectious hand-foot-mouth disease, in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, May 8, 2008.(Xinhua Photo/Liu Baoping)

Children learn proper ways of washing hands at a school in Yichang, a city in central China's Hubei Province, May 8, 2008. The Yichang Education Bureau has issued instructions on preventing the infectious hand-foot-mouth disease, and the Health Bureau has implemented the system of daily reporting of cases of the disease. (Xinhua Photo/Liu Baoping)

Staff members (L) of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xiuning County publicize to local residents knowledge of the infectious hand-foot-mouth disease, and distribute materials about preventing the disease, in the county seat of Xiuning, east China's Anhui Province, May 8, 2008. (Xinhua Photo/Liu Baoping)