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Title: Fox Health: Mysterious disease blows in from China
Post by: riky on May 25, 2014, 09:00:29 AM
Mysterious disease blows in from China

A potential big step forward in discovering the cause of a childhood heart disease so mysterious that it was referred to as GOK&mdash;short for &quot;God only knows&quot;&mdash;for the decade after its 1961 identification: Scientists now believe that the agent that causes Kawasaki disease, eventually named for the Japanese doctor behind its discovery, is spread from northeastern China by the wind.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxnews/health/~4/wx7VUC88AQM" height="1" width="1"/>

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