After all, Konner's lips were so swollen that it looked as ... Right away, the doctor said: "He's got Kawasaki disease." Kawasaki disease is a disease of small and medium blood vessels in the ...

Kawasaki was born in 1925 in Tokyo’s Asakusa district. In 1961, he encountered a disease in which children were running a high fever for an extended period and their eyes and lips turned red.