When summer comes around, you can count on a few things. A Bruce Springsteen spotting at the Jersey Shore. Energy bills going up . And lots of kids getting sick with hand, foot, and mouth disease.

Doctors are currently seeing a surge in cases of the disease, which is more common in the summer and early fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Everyone feels like they know somebody who has it, one way or the other,” said Katharine Clouser, a pediatrician at Hackensack University Medical Center who also serves as president of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The United States doesn’t currently track individual cases of the disease, so it’s hard to get an exact case count.

But in a statement sent to NJ Advance Media, a spokeswoman

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