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9-year old dies of mysterious disease related to Covid-19

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A nine-year-old boy in France has died of a puzzling inflammatory condition seemingly linked to coronavirus, which has affected at least 230 children in Europe and claimed the life of one child in the UK.

The experienced paediatrician in Marseilles who initially treated the boy believed he had scarlet fever and, as he displayed "no signs of being seriously ill”, sent him home.

The boy then suffered a heart attack at home that night, resulting in brain damage that later led to his death.

After his heart attack on 2 May, he was rushed to intensive care at a different hospital, La Timone, where he spent six days.

Blood tests indicated he had been infected with Covid-19 in previous weeks, but he had no symptoms and was no longer testing positive for the virus when admitted to hospital.

Instead, some of the boy’s symptoms resembled those of Kawasaki disease, a rare blood vessel disorder, said Dr Fabrice Michel, head of La Timone’s paediatric unit.

The existing Kawasaki disease leads to an inflammatory response in the body’s immune system causing blood vessels to swell. Symptoms include a fever, rash, red eyes and lips and redness on the palms and soles of the feet.

About 125 children in France, up to 100 in the UK and at least 100 in New York have developed Kawasaki-like symptoms during the coronavirus outbreak, arousing suspicions of a link.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-children-kawasaki-disease-symptoms-scarlet-fever-heart-attack-france-a9518271.html

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