2024-01-18 19:00:00
– Swiss researchers find cause of Long Covid
A central but little-known part of the immune system gets out of control in long-term Covid patients: The new findings open up opportunities for targeted diagnosis and potential therapies.
Published today at 8:00 p.m
The recently published study by Zurich researchers found a class of substances in the blood of Long Covid patients that are still overactive long after the acute infection.
Photo: UZH
At first it was “just” a mysterious lung disease. But it quickly became clear: Like no other virus, Sars-CoV-2 can damage a wide variety of organs in the body when infected: blood vessels, muscles, the intestinal flora, the immune system, the brain and the autonomic nervous system, the kidneys and many more. Such multi-organ damage is possible after any Sars-CoV-2 infection, but it primarily affects the at least 65 million people worldwide who suffer from Long Covid – i.e. from long-lasting symptoms that affect the quality of life of those affected even several years after the infection sometimes have a massive impact.
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