12 hours agoA 72-year-old held the record for the longest infection with Avid-19, before changing his life he suffered from virus 613 days
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)A man in Amsterdam died after he was constantly suffering from Coved-19, for 613 days' record record. The 72-year-old went to hospital with the virus in February 2022 and was never cured before his death in October last year. The 20-month infection with “high viral charge” is believed to be the longest ever recorded [...]
The 72-year-old went to hospital with the virus in February 2022 and was never cured before his death in October last year.
The 20-month infection with “high viral charge” is believed to be the longest ever recorded by doctors, writes The Sun.
His doctors said that a serious immune system condition and cancer meant that he did not have enough white blood cells or antibodies to fight the virus.
Most people clean up a case of Covid naturally within weeks, but even vaccines and repeated medical treatment were unable to cure their husband.
He was to be hospitalised several times because of bad symptoms.
The unnamed patient ended up harboring a unique new super-mutant version, because the insect was able to change for a long time inside his body but there is no sign he passed on to someone else.
He died in the fall of 2023 because of a restoration of a basic blood disorder.
Medical student Magda Vergowe, from Amsterdam University Medical Center in Holland, will present the husband's case at the Global E Congress SCMID this month.
She said: “The timing of the infection in this case is extreme”.
“Prolonged infections in patients with compromised immunity are much more common compared to the general community. This underlines the risk of continuing infection, as unique viral variants can appear because of widespread evolution”, she said.
Vergowe said the case adds other reports of patients who tested positively for the same infection for more than a year, but seems to be the longest registered one.
People with weakened immune systems still receive regular vaccines against Coddy in the NHS because they are most vulnerable to disease, even years after pandemic.
In 2022 doctors at Guyés and St Thomas' Hospital in London said that one of their patients had been infected for 505 days supposedly a record at the time.
The British patient, 59, was finally healed in January that year. /Gazzeta Shneta/
