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.
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