Kawasaki Disease (KD) was first reported from Japan in 1967 by a young pediatrician, Tomisaku Kawasaki, while working at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo. Kawasaki Disease is a children’s illness. It’s also known as Kawasaki syndrome or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. About 75 percent of people with it are under age 5. Boys develop the illness almost twice as often as girls. In the United States, it’s more frequent among Asian-American children, but it occurs in children of all races and ethnicities.
