Doctors in Europe are seeing an alarming rise of rare, life-threatening complications among children with the novel coronavirus COVID-19.<br />However, it’s not certain how common these complications are or whether they’re necessarily connected to the viral disease.<br />According to Gizmodo, Italian and UK health officials have been receiving accounts of these cases from local doctors in recent days.<br />These complications appear to resemble two rare and similar conditions that can cause widespread damage to the body.<br />One is toxic shock syndrome, and the other is a blood vessel disorder known as Kawasaki disease.<br />Toxic shock syndrome is usually caused by a bacterial infection that produces a build-up of toxins that attack the body’s organs.<br />Kawasaki disease is characterized by swollen arteries throughout the body that can show up as distinctive skin rashes.
