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...soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...
...Tokyo pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki, now 55, was struck by something unusual. Several of his patients at the Japan Red Cross medical center had the symptoms of scarlet fever, yet did not respond to penicillin. In the next years Kawasaki spotted similar cases. By 1967 he was convinced that he was seeing a new illness, one that mostly struck children under five, and could only be diagnosed by a combination of distinct symptoms. Among them: high fever persisting for five or more days, congested blood vessels in the eye, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, peeling...
...early morning of Dec. 17, a Dade County police sergeant spotted McDuffie speeding on his orange and black Kawasaki motorcycle. McDuffie, who had lost his driving license for paying a previous traffic fine with a bad check, gunned the cycle. According to police, he ran a series of red lights at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. before he finally slowed down. By this time, more than a dozen policemen had closed in. The initial police report claimed that McDuffie's cycle had crashed, injuring him. This report also said that he fought off the police until they subdued...
...many products. We know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces about as much steel as the United States...
...first the police reports aroused little suspicion. At 1:59 on the morning of Dec. 17, a black male was said to have crashed his Kawasaki motorcycle in Miami while dodging police at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. He supposedly battled policemen, who tried to subdue him with nightsticks. Four days later he died of head injuries, but by then the story was taking quite a different turn...