MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) – Italian and British medical specialists are investigating a possible link in between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of extreme inflammatory disease amongst babies who are getting here in medical facility with high fevers and swollen arteries.
Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock at Downing Street, following the break out of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19), London, Britain, April 27,2020 REUTERS/John Sibley
Medical professionals in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas throughout the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with extreme cases of what seems Kawasaki illness, more common in parts of Asia.
In Britain, medical professionals have made comparable observations, prompting Health Secretary Matt Hancock to tell a coronavirus news instruction on Monday that he was “extremely worried” and that medical authorities were looking at the problem carefully.
In the United States, a leading paediatric society states it has yet to see something similar.
Kawasaki disease, whose cause is unknown, often afflicts children aged under 5 and is related to fever, skin rashes, swelling of glands, and in extreme cases, swelling of arteries of the heart. There is some evidence that people can acquire a predisposition to the disease, but the pattern is unclear.
England’s nationwide medical director, Stephen Powis, informed the British briefing he had ended up being mindful of r