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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you. Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
>A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body.
>That’s according to a study of more than 1,000 people hospitalized with the disease that is published today in Nature. The analysis finds that this reactivation of pathogens is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID.
>If further research reveals that reactivated viruses can cause people to become seriously ill, it could open the door to new treatments for COVID-19 and even long COVID, says Esther Melamed, a physician-scientist who studies neuroimmunology at the University of Texas at Austin and who is a co-author of the analysis.
>Although the study didn’t dive into how COVID-19 prompts viruses to reawaken, Melamed says that the disease “probably induces the stress that triggers the reactivations, and then these reactivations further amplify the inflammation” caused by COVID-19. In these cases, she adds, “COVID is not really acting on its own.”
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[OP] maxkozlov | 5 hours ago
>A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body.
>That’s according to a study of more than 1,000 people hospitalized with the disease that is published today in Nature. The analysis finds that this reactivation of pathogens is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID.
>If further research reveals that reactivated viruses can cause people to become seriously ill, it could open the door to new treatments for COVID-19 and even long COVID, says Esther Melamed, a physician-scientist who studies neuroimmunology at the University of Texas at Austin and who is a co-author of the analysis.
>Although the study didn’t dive into how COVID-19 prompts viruses to reawaken, Melamed says that the disease “probably induces the stress that triggers the reactivations, and then these reactivations further amplify the inflammation” caused by COVID-19. In these cases, she adds, “COVID is not really acting on its own.”
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scixlovesu | 2 hours ago
The gift that keeps on giving
Then-Secretary3432 | 2 hours ago
The important question is does Aaron Rodgers agree with the conclusions from this study.
Independent-Radio171 | 35 minutes ago
Did COVID wake them up or did the hospitalizations do it? Also, did they get Remdisavir?
The treatment for COVID is often overlooked by branch Covidians
costafilh0 | 4 hours ago
749 boost shots later...
alsaad | 3 hours ago
Boosters have nothing to do with it
UntowardHatter | 3 hours ago
Don't bother. He's a moron.