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However, new findings indicate that the causative factor of the disease a fungus known as <em>Candida<\/em> which is carried by a wind originating in the farmlands of northeastern China. In recent times, the number of afflicted have risen and researchers are now trying to uncover the cause behind this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/mysterious-childhood-disease-spread-by-dust-storms\/\"><em>Scientific American<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2970,2969,2968],"class_list":["post-18232","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-and-nursing","subject-health","subject-medicine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cause of the mysterious Kawasaki disease discovered | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The exact cause of the enigmatic and potentially lethal Kawasaki disease, which predominantly affects the children in Japan, Hawaii, and Southern California, was unknown to researchers for decades. 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