Kawasaki disease was discovered by Japanese pediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the Japanese Ministry of Health made a further inquiry. They realized that children were dying from the heart attacks that followed the disease, says Dr. Jane Burns of the University of California, San Diego.
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It has been heard through the grapevine that an Italian court has upheld an appeal from the parents for the Ministry of Health to pay compensation for irreversible complications caused by a vaccination. The Board Scientifico del Calendario Vaccinale per la Vita is concerned about this ruling and is calling for the Ministry of Health to appeal against the decision.
Read what happens in the full article: Italian Courts may have ruled that an MMR Vaccine caused Autism?
Across the country, researchers are scanning the brains of hundreds of autistic children, looking for insights into a condition that has proved frustratingly hard to understand.
They may be on to something. read the full article: Autism Science Progression
The swine flu brush of 1976 holds crucial lessons for the government and health officials. The panic in 1976 was partly because of the belief — now known to be erroneous — that the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which killed half a million Americans and as many as 50 million worldwide, was caused by a virus with swine components. Recent research suggests instead that it was avian flu, but that seems unlikely to assuage the current anxiety.
Regardless, due to the panic in 1976, a disease that was uncommon to many people became many people’s focus and the center of attention. Even to this day, it causes concern to many and that disease is called Guillain-Barré syndrome, the most common form of nerve damage related to vaccines. 
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Gulf War syndrome (GWS) or Gulf War illness (GWI) affects veterans and civilians who were near conflicts during or downwind of a chemical weapons depot demolition, after the 1991 Gulf War. Approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with enduring chronic multi-symptom illness, a condition with serious consequences.
GWS was first described in 1998 in war veterans who did not suffer from classic rheumatic illnesses, but presented with symptoms characteristic of these disorders, such as arthralgia, myalgia, lymphadenopathy, chronic fatigue, facial flushing and autoimmune thyroid disease.
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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a nonvasculitic inflammatory demyelinating condition that bears a striking clinical and pathological resemblance to multiple sclerosis (MS).
It is characterized by a brief but intense attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord that damages myelin – the protective covering of nerve fibers. It often follows viral infection, or less often, vaccination for measles, mumps, or rubella.
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In reports coming out of Cape Town, South Africa there are some concerns as to what exactly may be happening at a local clinic. Two innocent baby lives have now been lost, and some are wondering what took place.
The reports of the two separate incidents, where both infants died at the Manenberg Clinic on the same day, show that the families and communities are still trying to come to terms with the deaths.
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An article written for News Medical by Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD, suggests that there may be an explanation of why some military personnel exposed to blasts have symptoms of brain injury even though their CT and MRI scans look normal, according to a new study.
Nearly 320,000 American troops have sustained traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them mild, according to a 2008 report by the RAND Corporation. The injuries are poorly understood, and sometimes produce lasting mental, physical and emotional problems for the soldiers and their families.
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is an emerging infectious disease, according to the CDC. It is a progressive neurological disorder of children and young adults that affects the central nervous system. It is a slow, but persistent, viral infection caused by defective measles virus.
It is also known as Panencephalitis, Subacute Sclerosing, SSPE, Dawson’s Disease, and Dawson’s Encephalitis.
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