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Article: Viral involvement in Kawasaki syndrome?
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- Science News
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- November 8, 1986
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Viral involvement in Kawasaki syndrome?
Researchers from several Harvard-affiliated institutions have found signs of viral involvement in Kawasaki syndrome. The cause of the illness, which can result in heart problems in young children, has remained elusive (NS: 7/6/85, p. 10).
Kawasaki syndrome includes among its symptoms fever and rash. About 15 to 20 percent of children with it develop weakened walls in their coronary arteries. The syndrome is more common in Japan, where it was discovered, than in the United States, which has several hundred cases a year.
Incidence of the disease shows a pattern consistent with an infectious agent-- cases ...