Tokyo’s sentinel surveillance weekly reporting highest record of Kawasaki disease cases in spring 2025 should be regarded as the key predictive indicator of a 2018-like situation, given Japan’s lack of rapid reporting of cancer incidence and the 2018 coincidence of extreme pollen levels with peak Kawasaki disease, cancer, and designated intractable disease incidence
Awaya A, Kuroiwa Y. Tokyo’s sentinel weekly surveillance reporting highest record of Kawasaki disease cases in spring 2025
should be regarded as the key predictive indicator of a 2018-like situation, given Japan’s lack of rapid reporting of cancer incidence
and the 2018 coincidence of extreme pollen levels with peak Kawasaki disease, cancer, and intractable disease incidence.. Med Clin
Sci. 2025;7(4):57.
