Enterovirus is a hand foot and mouth disease.
http://www.webmd.com/children/guide/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-topic-overview
“The virus spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. It can also spread through infected stool, such as when you change a diaper or when a young child gets stool on his or her hands and then touches objects that other children put in their mouths. Often the disease breaks out within a community.”
Here’s the zinger - “the virus can stay in the stool for several months and may spread to others”
“the virus can stay in the stool for several months and may spread to others”
I don’t want to gross you all out, but one study had shopping carts tested. They found that 100% of the carts in the study came back positive for stool. So many people don’t wash their hands that every cart handle is assumed to have stool on it.
If this virus can live for months in stool, you need to wipe down the cart handle before you push it around. Put some rubbing alcohol on some wet wipes and use that. Don’t use the anti-bacterial wipes that many grocery stores are putting out. Anti-bacterial wipes don’t kill viruses. You need alcohol for that.
This has hit our area a few times