Machine learning helps find mysterious source of a global illness

Kawasaki disease (or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) is a disease where blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed. This is manifest through a five-day fever, enlargement of the lymph nodes, a rashes and sometimes diarrhea. The disease is primarily one of children and treatment is usually based on pain killers and the infusion of immunoglobulin. The disease has been known about since World War II (and described in 1967 by Tomisaku Kawasaki in Japan). Despite the passing of time, the cause is still unknown.