A Briton just couldn’t get rid of his corona infection. He fought the virus for more than 400 days. A special genetic analysis brought the breakthrough. The man is now considered cured.
London – Thanks to a special genetic analysis, a 59-year-old Briton is now considered cured. The man had been ill with the corona virus for more than a year. Before he got sick, he had a kidney transplant. After the operation, his test was repeatedly positive and that over a period of 411 days, reports the Network Germany and relies on one Study now published for the first time in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases has been published.
Apparently, the drugs that kept his body from rejecting the new organ severely weakened his immune system. As a result, the patient tested positive for Corona from December 2020 to January 2022. In the meantime he had received three vaccinations against the virus. With no discernible success.
Briton healed after 411 days: Infected with virus variant from Wuhan
Baffled doctors conducted a genetic analysis of the virus. They found he had contracted a variant of the original virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, and was dominant in the UK until late 2020, reports Bloomberg and relies on details of the study. The patient’s own virus was also mutated multiple times. Doctors who analyzed the variant used the results to prescribe a tailored treatment for his strain. Two months later – a total of 411 days after his first positive test – the infection had subsided.
“Some new variants of the virus are resistant to all antibody treatments available in the UK and Europe,” said lead researcher Luke B. Snell, an infectious disease expert at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, who specializes in pathogen development specialized. “Some people with compromised immune systems are still at risk of becoming seriously ill and becoming permanently infected. We’re still working to understand the best way to treat them,” Snell told Bloomberg.
The longest recorded Covid infection is 505 days, according to the journal. The patient did not survive.
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