Researchers Hunt For Cause Of Rare COVID-19 Linked Immune Disease In Children – MIS-C

Researchers are now hunting what is the cause of a rare COVID-19 linked immune disease in children called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome MIS-C.

In the beginning of March 2020, Audrey Odom John recognised a kind of new disease in one of her teenage patients. John is chief of paediatric infectious disease at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Within a few weeks John came across two more children having the same symptoms like rashes, inflammation and fever. Out of these three cases two patients had Covid-19 positive people in their family.

However, John was not able to establish a connection between the new disease and Covid-19, but late in April John was sure about the link as an alert came from the United Kingdom.

With rising cases of children having such symptoms CHOP and other paediatric specialists worldwide have tried to understand this disease and came to a conclusion that this new disease is called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) in children...