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Very rare, Kawasaki disease has been spreading for a few weeks. While the WHO says to study a possible link between the coronavirus and this pathology, France deplored this Friday its first death of a child with a form close to Kawasaki. But does this inflammatory disease really have a link with the virus responsible for more than 300,000 deaths worldwide? In the "Big Evening Newspaper" of Europe 1 this Friday, doctor Jimmy Mohamed, believes that this link "must be proven".
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"All patients have been in contact with Covid-19"
"For the moment, we are not talking about an epidemic, but an increasing, worrying number, of the number of cases of Kawasaki, this disease which usually affects children on average at the age of two years", notes the doctor. Patients with this disease also have two particularities: "They are between 5 and 15 years old, therefore older than the age of the typical patient", but above all, "they have all been in contact with Covid-19. "They didn't have any symptoms, their serological tests come back positive," he said.
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"Any fever should be considered suspicious"
It is this latest data that has put researchers around the world on the trail of a possible link between Kawasaki disease and the coronavirus. But that remains at this stage a supposition, and this link "must be proven", insists Jimmy Mohamed. In the meantime, the doctor advises parents to consult if their child has a fever for more than 48 hours: "With confinement, there are almost no more infectious diseases, and therefore any fever should be considered suspicious." Even if he recognizes that there is little chance that she will reveal such a disease.