Japan's 'Kawasaki disease' doctor dies at 95

Tomisaku Kawasaki, the Japanese doctor who first reported cases of what is now known as Kawasaki disease, is pictured in 2009 at Tsukuba Central Hospital in Ibaraki Prefecture. - Kyodo news agency

TOKYO (AFP): The Japanese doctor who discovered the mysterious 'Kawasaki's disease' -- recently in the headlines for some similarities to coronavirus -- has died of natural causes aged 95, his research NGO said Wednesday (June 10).

Paediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki first noticed the disease in the 1960s as a junior doctor when he began treating children with fever, red eyes and a rash with no clear cause.