Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) tests based on swabs from oropharyngeal (OP) vs nasopharyngeal (NP) sampling Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease ...

Scientists now have some clues to what's causing Kawasaki disease, a rare inflammatory disease that can affect very young children. Doctors say it's important to recognize the signs of this condition ...

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As health organizations have started warning about unusual presentations of a Kawasaki disease-like inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19, some pediatric cardiologists noted that even classic ...

Yet another scary illness has emerged from the coronavirus pandemic, and it affects children: a condition that looks eerily similar to Kawasaki disease. As of Friday, 73 kids in New York state have ...

Kawasaki disease is a condition that causes inflammation of the blood vessels and mostly affects children under 5 years old. (1,2) Along with several days of fever, symptoms include rash; swollen neck ...

At the end of April, medical trend reports revealed a chilling trend: Children appear to be increasingly sick with a virus similar to Kawasaki disease, a very rare illness that causes inflammation ...

Researchers report that while Kawasaki disease occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters. Researchers at University of California San Diego ...