2024-04-21 20:37:49
By MD
Published Now, Updated Now
A 72-year-old man died following 613 days of contamination with Covid-19. Tobias Arhelger / stock.adobe.com
The virus present in the body of this 72-year-old patient mutated more than fifty times before the person died in October 2023, but did not infect any other people.
A 72-year-old patient remained positive for the virus for almost two years. Covid-19. Dutch researchers from the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine at the University of Amsterdam discovered that the septuagenarian, whose identity or nationality has not been revealed, was contaminated by variant Omicron in February 2022. The latter was ill for 613 days, before he died in October 2023.
The man suffered from a blood disorder and was unable to produce enough antibodies to fight the virus, according to the story carried by the US magazine Timedespite the many injections of anti-Covid vaccine taken before catching the Omicron variant in February 2022. Based on the analyzes of the samples taken, the researchers came to the conclusion that the coronavirus has developed resistance to sotrovimab, a Covid antibody treatment, within a few weeks. The virus then mutated more than fifty times.
This particular case is the longest SARS-CoV-2 infection ever known, according to the researchers. They specify that the mutant virus has not infected any other person. “This case highlights the risk of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections in immunocompromised individuals, say the authors of the study. We emphasize the importance of continued genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 evolution in immunocompromised individuals with persistent infections.”
1713734654
#patient #dies #days #contamination
