NYC man's fatal brain disease linked to COVID-19: 'Highly likely'
“Doctors from Mount Sinai Queens’ said it’s ‘highly likely’ COVID contributed to a New York City man developing fatal prion disease.”
laurie allee on Twitter
Starting thread on Covid as a potential prion
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a man with COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2-accelerated neurodegeneration? - PubMed
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."
Prion-like domains in SARS-CoV-2 RBD and ACE2 play important functional roles in viral adhesion and entry
"The findings of this research are in line with previous studies that analyzed the pathological function of prions in humans"
SARS-CoV-2, long COVID, prion disease and neurodegeneration
SARS-CoV-2, long COVID, prion disease and neurodegeneration
Chris Turnbull on Twitter
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?
Potential Prion Involvement in Long COVID-19 Neuropathology, Including Behavior
"Potential Prion Involvement in Long COVID-19 Neuropathology, Including Behavior"