Pursuing a Pediatric Mystery.

The article discusses the commitment of Jane C. Burns, the director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at the University of California San Diego, to investigate and discover the cause of the rare childhood illness. Topics discussed include Burns' creation of a team of experts such as a cardiologist, an oceanographer and microbiologist, the research on the role of anomalous wind patterns on the emergence of the disease, and the heart attack and aneurysm complications of Kawasaki disease.