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COVID-19, Can you get sick again after the first infection? It is one of the questions that has not yet been answered. A few months after the start of pandemic, evidence of patients who were reinfected several months after the first infection. “The ECDC has recently published a document on Covid-19 reinfections, in which it reviews the cases available in the literature”, Points a report from the Spallanzani Institute. The ECDC document highlights six cases of reinfection in five countries. The first was documented by a team of researchers from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and refers to the reinfection of a person 142 days after the first infection, with a different virus strain than the one that triggered the first. infection.
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The patient, a 33 year old man, had been hospitalized in late March with mild symptoms and was discharged in mid-April. The second infection was detected on August 15 after a review at the Hong Kong airport, where the patient had returned after a trip to Spain with a stopover in Great Britain. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory have reported the case of di a 25 year old who tested positive in mid-April, with moderate symptoms, and were reinfected in late May, this time developing a more severe form of Covid-19.
Also in the United States, in Virginia, the reinfection of a military man assigned to the health services, which after being infected on March 21 and passing the infection ten days later, tested positive again on May 24, and in the second episode presented symptoms more severe than the first infection.
Episode of a woman who had been infected in March and was reinfected in June by a virus strain that had eleven mutations compared to the first infection. A similar case was reported in the Netherlands by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam: also in this case the genetic sequences confirmed that the viruses that caused the first and second infections are from different strains, but in this case the patient was an elderly person with a weakened immune system.
Last Updated: Friday, September 25, 2020, 3:35 PM
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