Related: "potential future Alzheimer’s problems may arise from the COVID-19 pandemic as SARS-CoV-2 infections have been known to reactivate dormant VSV and HSV-1 infections...the pandemic could increase future rates of neurodegenerative disease"
Related: "Drawing from recent data on prion disease pathogenesis and immune responses to SARS-CoV-2, we hypothesize that the cascade of systemic inflammatory mediators in response to the virus accelerated the pathogenesis of our patient's prion disease."
Comprehensive thread on possible prion involvement with SarsCov2 Mad Cov-Disease? New study looks at the possibility that Covid is a prion (a type of protein that can cause degenerative brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) aka mad Cow disease
Is Long Covid a prion disease?
"Had COVID? Part of the Virus May Stick Around in Your Brain
Researchers in Germany found that part of the virus, the spike protein, remains in the brain long after the virus clears out..."
New paper comparing #LongCovid patients to matched controls found significantly reduced blood flow all over the brain - frontal, temporal, & parietal lobes.
Middle column in the picture below are healthy controls; red/warm colors = more blood flow. 1/
60% of us who had COVID still might have lingering viral spikes in our heads! Our new study reveals SARS-CoV-2 spike accumulation in the skull-meninges-brain axis & its implications in long COVID. By @zhouyi_rong
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