World health officials are hearing about more cases of an inflammatory disease similar to Kawasaki disease in a few countries, including the United States and Europe, WHO says.
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World health officials are increasingly hearing about cases of an inflammatory disease similar to Kawasaki disease in a few countries, including the United States and Italy, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said during a press conference at the agency's Geneva headquarters.
"We need more information collected in a systematic way because with the initial reports, we're getting a description of what this looks like, which is not always the same," Kerkhove said. "And in some children, they tested positive for Covid-19 and other children have not. So we do not know if this is associated with Covid-19."
Early in the outbreak, researchers and infectious disease experts said the virus appeared to be sparing children while hitting the elderly and those with underlying health conditions particularly hard.
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