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Questions in the Category: CMV

Viral Infections: Reactivated

ME Essential Winter 2021

I’ve been reading some interesting new research which indicates that reactivation of viruses that lay dormant in the body after the initial infection could be a cause of Long Covid. The reasoning seems to be that Covid infection activates the body’s immune system and this results in the reactivation of viruses that have been lying dormant and harmless in the body but now become active again and are capable of causing symptoms. Given the overlaps between Long Covid and ME could this be happening here as well? And has any research been done into this in ME?

Charles Shepherd

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