Persistent viruses are not cleared but remain in specific cells of infected individuals. Persistent infections may involve stages of both silent and productive infection without rapidly killing the host. Diseases caused by persistent virus infections include acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), AIDS-related complexes, chronic hepatitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (chronic measles encephalitis), chronic papovavirus encephalitis (progressive […]
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Long-COVID’s Similarity to HIV
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Omicron and Other COVID Variants / the Long Term Pandemic
COVID and Cats: A scientist friend called me last night… wanted to make sure I stocked up on enough masks and supplies for the next round featuring Omicron. We got to talking about severity of variants and what the most likely scenarios are: 1) the virus stays for a prolonged period in an unvaccinated immune […]
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Omicron: What We Know About the COVID-19 Variant
We’re starting to find out more about Omicron: 1)”Previous infection used to protect against Delta but now with Omicron that doesn’t seem to be the case,” said Anne von Gottberg, microbiologist at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases.” 2) risk of breakthrough vaccination is also much higher. Out of 600 fully vaccinated travelers from […]
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Long-COVID: What We Know About Long Haulers Syndrome
by Daniel Brouse August 25, 2021 help@membrane.com Post Acute Covid Syndrome 19 (PACS19), long-COVID, and Long Haulers Syndrome are names for the condition that an individual has after recovering from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Long-COVID is actually a combination of several conditions and syndromes including changes to your genetics, an accelerant to aging, and the persistence […]
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