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Katayama Syndrome
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Also known as: Katayama fever · acute schistosomiasis · acute schistosomiasis syndrome · Katayama disease · acute blood fluke fever · acute bilharzia · acute schistosome fever · Katayama · acute schistosomiasis reaction · schistosomiasis early phase
Your Body Is Speaking
Four to eight weeks after infection with schistosomes, your body begins to fight back. Not quietly, not politely, but with all the force available to it. Fever that comes in waves. Chills. An itching, whealing rash that moves across the skin. A dry cough. Diarrhea. Abdominal pain. Swollen lymph nodes. A feeling as though a severe flu had taken hold — except that it does not fit the time of year and does not respond to ordinary remedies.
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