The condition, called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, appears to be a post-viral syndrome
, said Dr. Jeffrey Burns, a critical care specialist at Boston Children's Hospital who has been coordinating a global group of doctors who compare notes on the condition.
Symptoms include persistent fever, inflammation and poor function in organs such as the kidneys or heart. Children may also show evidence of blood vessel inflammation, such as red eyes, a bright red tongue and cracked lips, said Dr. Moshe Arditi, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
"We can expect that each of the epicenters will see clusters of these emerging roughly four to six weeks later," Burns told CNN. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing a Health Alert Network notification to send to doctors across the country, a CDC spokesman said. Burns said the World Health Organization is also working to define the syndrome and alert doctors so they will know what to look for and how to treat it.
"Understanding the child's immune response could be a key to vaccine development and could also be a key to therapy for adults to understand why children are able to fight off so well," Burns said.CNN has contacted departments of health, hospitals and state officials around the country to get a sense of how many children are affected, and where.
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