Health
Boy in Melbourne hospital battling rare coronavirus-related illness – Sydney Morning Herald
A cluster of children fell sick with the disease in the United Kingdom. Now a case has been detected in Melbourne.
The condition is similar to Kawasaki disease, a rare paediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome which has similar symptoms of fever and peeling skin.
PIMS-TS has also been found in France, Switzerland and Spain, appearing in children two to six weeks after they contract COVID-19.
Paediatric infectious diseases expert Professor Robert Booy from the University of Sydney was not surprised that the country’s first case was in Victoria.
“There have been literally thousands of cases of coronavir…
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