Infectious disease: Blowing in the wind

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Infectious disease: Blowing in the wind

Nature: The desperately ill baby had been airlifted in from Wyoming, recalls Jane Burns, thinking back to 1981 and her third year as a paediatric resident at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Twenty-one days later, the little girl’s skin rashes were mostly gone, but the accompanying fever was still raging, and Burns had no idea why. “I think this is Kawasaki disease,” said Richard Anderson, an infectious-disease fellow at the school, who had also examined the tiny patient. Burns was stunned. Kawasaki disease was uncommon even in Japan, where it had been first identified in the early 1960s, and was almost unheard of in the United States. Read article

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