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Houston’s two major pediatric hospitals are treating children with the inflammatory syndrome linked to the coronavirus, officials at those institutions said Thursday, the area’s first examples of the mysterious condition now surfacing around the nation. Texas Children’s and Children’s Memorial Hermann hospital officials said Thursday several patients have or are suspected to have what’s known…

The four children showed up at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital in late April and early May, almost exactly one month after the peak of New York City’s coronavirus surge. All had fevers, rashes and strange blood readings that did not look like any illness doctors had seen before — but the cases looked…

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Two children in Dacula were attacked by a rabid fox Tuesday. Gwinnett Animal Welfare and Enforcement captured the fox the same day. But that department, along with the county health department, are advising residents to use caution and avoid animals behaving in unusual ways. The children were attacked by the fox in the Dolostone Way/Austin…

A Rady Children's Hospital patient who contracted COVID-19 also tested positive for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare disease being investigated for its connection to the novel coronavirus in children. MIS-C, formerly called Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), has been described by medical experts as a "mystery" illness linked to COVID-19. A spike…