Word: kawasaki
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...read about those Crusades. The first Kawasaki I hear, I'm diving for cover behind Linus O'Donnell...
...West Germany has the largest number, 850. Sweden has 600, the most per capita in the world, and Sweden's ASEA is the world's third largest manufacturer of robots (after Unimation and Kawasaki). Italy has 500, France 200, the Soviet Union...
...Since Kawasaki first described the disease, more than 20,000 cases have been diagnosed in Japan alone. It has also been observed in other countries, though with a much lower incidence. In the U.S., the first cases were detected during the mid-'70s; so far only about 650 cases have been reported to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. But C.D.C. Epidemiologist David Bell points out that many doctors may still be unfamiliar with the disease...
...origin of the disease remains unknown. Since brothers and sisters of the victims almost never become ill, the ailment does not appear to be contagious. Says Kawasaki: "It could be a virus or some other microorganism. Because of the preponderance of cases among Japanese, it may have some ethnic and hereditary cause triggered by some new factor in the environment...
...trying to find the cause of the disease, and its cure, by taking blood, spinal fluid and skin samples. Some are examined immediately, others frozen for future study. For now, says Jeffrey's physician, Richard Meade III, doctors confronted by a youngster with odd symptoms might "think of Kawasaki...