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Rare children's disease now linked to coronavirus left baby ill for a year

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A mum says she has never been so terrified as when her baby contracted a rare disease now linked to Covid-19 infections in children.

Kawasaki disease causes inflammation throughout the body, including the heart, often in response to a viral infection. Its symptoms include a high temperature that lingers for more than five days, with a rash, swollen glands in the neck, dry, cracked lips, red fingers or toes and red eyes.

It usually affects those under five. The condition has been found recently a dozen children intensive care hospitals in the UK.

Some of those afflicted have also tested positive for coronavirus, suggesting a possible link between the two. Last month the Mirror reported a six-month-old girl with the novel coronavirus was

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