“We still don’t know what the actual cause is, but we have in the past thought regular viruses, like hand-foot-mouth or the flu can trigger Kawasaki,” says Dr. Fatima Kakkar, a Pediatric Specialist in Infectious Diseases at Montreal’s Sainte-Justine Hospital, where there has been a spike in this rare inflammatory disease. Doctors around the world are studying links between these cases and COVID-19. Alyssia Rubertucci reports.
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