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Originally Posted by StarvingBillionaire
Medical researchers now seem to think that coronavirus affects not only the respiratory system but also the central neurological system--the brain.
For instance, this new article says " Increasing evidence shows that coronavriruses are not always confined to the respiratory tract and that they may also invade the central nervous system inducing neurological diseases":
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1002/jmv.25728 |
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Originally Posted by 77T
Appreciate the link - I read the article and believe this part also deserves equal awareness:
“The infection of SARS‐CoV has been reported in the brains from both patients and experimental animals, where the brainstem was heavily infected.”
That has been known for quite a while - that is, when the original SARS victims that died were studied. That outbreak began in 2003.
The authors are noting the similarity of SARS-CoV sequencing within the SARS‐CoV-2 gene (the current Wuhan coronavirus strain). So this COVID-19 “Might” also lead to brain infection.
It is a good thing for them to report, but only helpful to the immunologists who are choosing effective anti-viral gene sequences for a new vaccine - or ICU’s who have very ill patients.
For us, the preventative steps remain the same, as well as our own treatment of mild cases.
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Thank you for your valuable input, 77T.
(I assume you're a medical professional.)
