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Mysterious Childhood Disease Spread by Dust Storms
Winds from Chinese farmlands can carry a fungus that causes Kawasaki disease all the way to Japan, Hawaii and California
May 20, 2014 |By Christopher Wanjek and LiveScience
The probable cause of Kawasaki disease ? a mysterious and sometimes deadly childhood heart disease that has stumped generations of doctors and that predominantly affects people in Japan, Hawaii and Southern California ? may have been found.
The answer, it seems, is quite literally blowing in the wind ? a wind originating in the farmlands of northeastern China carrying a fungus known as Candida, a type of yeast...
Mysterious Childhood Disease Spread by Dust Storms
Winds from Chinese farmlands can carry a fungus that causes Kawasaki disease all the way to Japan, Hawaii and California
May 20, 2014 |By Christopher Wanjek and LiveScience
The probable cause of Kawasaki disease ? a mysterious and sometimes deadly childhood heart disease that has stumped generations of doctors and that predominantly affects people in Japan, Hawaii and Southern California ? may have been found.
The answer, it seems, is quite literally blowing in the wind ? a wind originating in the farmlands of northeastern China carrying a fungus known as Candida, a type of yeast...