The OP is at WDW by now (the original post was last Tuesday). Little kids are always sick with something, and most kids get this virus eventually. I can't imagine cancelling a vacation because a child had a very common childhood virus a week before a vacation.
Just to be clear, It looks like i was quoted making the above statement -- want to be clear, I made the comment describing HFMD, and said the mother of sick child needed to think if other het child could make sick while in vacation -- I just wanted to clear on this.
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is not that common. Nobody in my family has ever had this, and none of my nieces or nephews ever had this.
I also did daycare when my oldest daughter was little, and never had that problem -- ever-- with any child in my daycare.
I am a nursing assistant, and I can can tell you, it's not a common thing like a cold, flu, or earache. Most kids DO NOT " eventually" get this.
Perhaps even less would get it, if selfish people that think like you wouldn't expose their ill kids all over the place. I know the kind....
Having to cancel a vacation would be a bummer, but that seems dramatic. Surely there would be a trusted family member ( grandparents, auntie ect) that the sick child could stay with while the rest of the family went.
It would be hard, but it's better than canceling a vacation, possibly losing money, AND passing this on to others while on vacation.
Also, if your child is really not feeling good, and sick with something contagious, why would you even want to bring the poor, sick child? Who does that???? Bringing a sick, contagious child on vacation is really selfish, and lacks good parental judgement.