In 2020, Kawasaki Disease (KD) hit the news around the world when children started to present with symptoms that resembled KD and there were a lot of questions about a possible link between COVID-19 and KD. A link was eventually ruled out and those children were subsequently diagnosed with Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIM-TS), also known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C). For a while, even if people didn’t know what KD was, when it was mentioned, people would say that they had heard the name.

KD is an uncommon disease that usually affects children under the age of 5 years of age. Boys are affected more often than girls. It is more common among children of North East Asian heritage, but it affects children of all ethnic groups. KD often occurs in small local outbreaks/clusters and at certain times of the year, but it is seen during the entire year.