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Kawasaki Disease Linked to Wind Currents
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Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Re: Kawasaki Disease Linked to Wind Currents
All Things Considered
A Windborne Clue To A Mysterious Childhood Disease
NPR StaffMay 20, 2012, 5:13 PM
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Japanese researchers noticed a similar pattern. Together, they worked with a group of climate scientists who started to analyze atmospheric data.
What the climate researchers found was an association with the direction of wind circulating in the troposphere at heights of 3,000 meters, Burns says. When those wind currents blew in one direction, across Japan, then across the Pacific, to the West Coast and Hawaii, the number of U.S. cases increased. When the wind blew in the opposite direction, the number of cases fell.
The data was so overwhelming Burns and her team thought it couldn't be coincidental. If the theory that Kawasaki disease is true, it could open up a whole new understanding into how other airborne viruses are spread. No human disease has ever been shown to cross an ocean by wind and still remain infectious.
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Copyright 2012 National Public Radio.
http://www.wbur.org/npr/153024828/a-windborne-clue-to-a-mysterious-childhood-disease
All Things Considered
A Windborne Clue To A Mysterious Childhood Disease
NPR StaffMay 20, 2012, 5:13 PM
...
Japanese researchers noticed a similar pattern. Together, they worked with a group of climate scientists who started to analyze atmospheric data.
What the climate researchers found was an association with the direction of wind circulating in the troposphere at heights of 3,000 meters, Burns says. When those wind currents blew in one direction, across Japan, then across the Pacific, to the West Coast and Hawaii, the number of U.S. cases increased. When the wind blew in the opposite direction, the number of cases fell.
The data was so overwhelming Burns and her team thought it couldn't be coincidental. If the theory that Kawasaki disease is true, it could open up a whole new understanding into how other airborne viruses are spread. No human disease has ever been shown to cross an ocean by wind and still remain infectious.
...
Copyright 2012 National Public Radio.
http://www.wbur.org/npr/153024828/a-windborne-clue-to-a-mysterious-childhood-disease
Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Re: Kawasaki Disease Linked to Wind Currents
Association of Kawasaki disease with tropospheric wind patterns
Xavier Rodó, Joan Ballester, Dan Cayan, Marian E. Melish, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Ritei Uehara & Jane C. Burns
AffiliationsContributionsCorresponding author
Scientific Reports 1, Article number: 152 doi:10.1038/srep00152
Received 15 June 2011 Accepted 17 October 2011 Published 10 November 2011
The causal agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) remains unknown after more than 40 years of intensive research. The number of cases continues to rise in many parts of the world and KD is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in developed countries. Analyses of the three major KD epidemics in Japan, major non-epidemic interannual fluctuations of KD cases in Japan and San Diego, and the seasonal variation of KD in Japan, Hawaii, and San Diego, reveals a consistent pattern wherein KD cases are often linked to large-scale wind currents originating in central Asia and traversing the north Pacific. Results suggest that the environmental trigger for KD could be wind-borne. Efforts to isolate the causative agent of KD should focus on the microbiology of aerosols.
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Association of Kawasaki disease with tropospheric wind patterns
Xavier Rodó, Joan Ballester, Dan Cayan, Marian E. Melish, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Ritei Uehara & Jane C. Burns
AffiliationsContributionsCorresponding author
Scientific Reports 1, Article number: 152 doi:10.1038/srep00152
Received 15 June 2011 Accepted 17 October 2011 Published 10 November 2011
The causal agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) remains unknown after more than 40 years of intensive research. The number of cases continues to rise in many parts of the world and KD is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in developed countries. Analyses of the three major KD epidemics in Japan, major non-epidemic interannual fluctuations of KD cases in Japan and San Diego, and the seasonal variation of KD in Japan, Hawaii, and San Diego, reveals a consistent pattern wherein KD cases are often linked to large-scale wind currents originating in central Asia and traversing the north Pacific. Results suggest that the environmental trigger for KD could be wind-borne. Efforts to isolate the causative agent of KD should focus on the microbiology of aerosols.
Full article available free here