Parvovirus — Japan
Cases of 5th disease — a mild rash illness that most commonly affects children but in rare cases can cause expectant mothers to lose the fetus — are on the rise in Tokyo and expected to worsen, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. “The number of patients is the highest since we started tracking data in 1997,” said Hirofumi Yaguchi, an official with the city’s Infectious Disease Control Department.
More than 400 active cases have been reported by Tokyo medical institutions as of
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