It’s the first such case in that country, but similar child fatalities were earlier recorded in the US and UK. All rights reserved.

The patients were aged from one up to 14 years, with a half of them testing positive for coronavirus. The boy, who has not been named, died from neurological trauma caused by a cardiac arrest, his doctor Fabrice Michel said. US sailors return to coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier only to test positive AGAIN, despite months of containment efforts, Three more months of lockdown? “It makes sense that it emerged in New York first because New York had the largest and most severe outbreak.”. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The French public health authority, Santé Publique France, said research suggested the syndrome appeared on average around four weeks after the children were infected by Covid-19, and was possibly a reaction to the virus. There are believed to be 144 diagnosed cases of Kawasaki disease in France, most of them in the Paris area, more than half of whom have tested positive for Covid-19. Symptoms include a high fever, rashes, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis and a red or swollen tongue. Think your friends would be interested? OBJECTIVE: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis that mostly occurs in young children and rarely in adults. However, the very idea of a link between Covid-19 and the Kawasaki disease so far remains just speculation, not backed by any scientific proof.

Michel urged parents to contact their doctor if their kids show those symptoms and have high fever for more than two days. Michel, the paediatric doctor in Marseille, stressed that the disease is rare.
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It is a form of vasculitis, where blood vessels become inflamed throughout the body.

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Nine-year-old from Marseille had been ‘in contact with’ virus before dying in hospital, First published on Sat 16 May 2020 05.58 EDT. Covid-19 has been especially dangerous for elderly people, with children mainly experiencing it in light form or without any symptoms at all.

Kawasaki disease is a syndrome of unknown cause that results in a fever and mainly affects children under 5 years of age.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that three children in the state had died and more than 100 cases were being investigated. A nine-year-old boy from Marseille is reported to have died of Kawasaki disease, the mysterious inflammatory syndrome linked to coronavirus. Besides, Kawasaki is quite treatable and not that harmful if timely detected, he added.

Furthermore, all Kawasaki disease cases diagnosed since April 1, 2020, were tested with SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal PCR (Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2 [Cepheid, Maurens-Scopont, France]). We analyzed the characteristics of adult-onset KD (AKD) in France.

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Kawasaki disease is said to mainly affect children under five, but those diagnosed in France are aged from one to 14. Doctors treating the French boy said he had developed a form of coronavirus but had no symptoms. “I wouldn’t expect an outbreak of Kawasaki in children because Kawasaki itself is rare,” Professor Angelo Ravelli, head of rheumatology at the Giannina Gaslini Institute, one of Italy’s largest pediatric hospitals, pointed out. The Kawasaki disease is characterized by high fever, rashes, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis and a red or swollen tongue.

“We can expect that each of the epicentres will see clusters of these emerging roughly four to six weeks later,” Dr Jeffrey Burns, a critical care specialist at Boston children’s hospital, told CNN.

Play it now. Since March 1, France has reported 125 cases of the new disease. This Tuesday May 12th, the Health general management announced 125 Kawasaki cases have been reported in France these past few weeks. When the child was taken by ambulance to La Timone hospital doctors realised “reasonably quickly” that it was not scarlet fever.

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