Noah Syndergaard picked up hand, foot and mouth disease somewhere, and now it has put the Mets star pitcher on the 10-day disabled list, Yard Barker reported. The viral infection is contagious, so don’t go swinging at his spit ball.
Syndergaard may have picked up the disease, also known as a Coxsackie viral infection, during the All-Star break while he was working with kids at a camp, Sports Illustrated reported.
He pitched Friday against the New York Yankees, going five innings with four strikeouts, but as Yard Barker pointed out, his velocity was down in that start.
Two days later he was placed on a 10-day disabled list for the disease, but he is expected to only miss one start.
Some have questioned Syndergaard’s illness, including dermatologist and sports writer Rany Jazayerli, who said in a tweet that, in 18 years in dermatology, he had never seen hand, foot, and mouth disease in an adult.
“Even by Mets standards, this is amazing,” he quipped, later admitting that “when adults do get it, it can be particularly miserable.”
What exactly is hand, foot, and mouth disease?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines the disease as a “common viral illness” that often affects younger children but can occur in adults.
Symptoms include fever, reduced appetite, sore throat, painful sores in the mouth and rashes that may develop.
The CDC noted that health complications from hand, foot, and mouth disease are not common but in rare cases polio-like paralyses and viral meningitis can occur.
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