Indeed, recent studies investigating multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a life-threatening post-infectious sequelae of COVID-19 disease in paediatric cohorts, have shown that IL-18 concentrations were significantly increased in the plasma of patients with MIS-C as well as Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) relative to healthy controls42. Here, IL18 is linked to hemophagocytic syndrome.