Corona cases may have reduced in the world, but such a form of this virus has emerged, knowing about which you will be stunned. This Covid virus remained in the body of a single person for 613 days. During this period, the corona virus also mutated 50 times in his body. Till then this patient kept fighting Covid with full vigor. But after mutating for the 50th time, the virus overpowered the person and ultimately this Covid took the life of the Dutch person.
This is the most unique case of presence of Covid in a person for such a long period. The virus kept attacking the 72-year-old man by changing its form for 613 consecutive days. Corona changed its form 50 times in a person’s body. In such a situation, the patient’s immune system became weak. Due to which now he died. The special thing is that the patient had also received Covid vaccination before coming in contact with corona infection. This patient harbored more than 50 mutated forms of the virus in his body.
Amsterdam University recorded the case
A study by researchers at the Amsterdam University Medical Center has revealed that a Dutch person has had the longest Covid-19 infection ever recorded. This infection lasted in his body for 613 days. He ultimately died in late 2023. The unnamed 72-year-old man was already suffering from a blood disease, which causes a weakened immune system, before he was infected with COVID-19 in February 2022, Time reported. The case study will be presented by researchers at a medical summit in Barcelona next week. Researchers say this Covid infection, which lasted 20 months, is the longest infection ever recorded, longer than the 505-day infection of a British man who also died.
Could not save life even after taking several doses of Covid-19
Researchers said that this person had taken several doses of COVID-19 vaccines before becoming infected with the Omicron variant. Despite this, the vaccine failed to maintain the patient’s immune system. Over time, the virus showed a remarkable ability to resist medical interventions, including a major Covid antibody treatment, sotrovimab, within weeks of being administered. Whereas after mutating, this version of the virus did not spread to anyone other than the patient. Its emergence shows how a pandemic-causing virus can change genetically, giving rise to new variants of the pathogen. “This case highlights the risk of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunocompromised individuals,” the authors of the study on the said patient said.
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