The strain is potentially evasive to immunity.
Viruses are constantly mutating to develop strategies for improving transmission and avoiding immunization. A new case study of a 72-year-old man from the Netherlands who had a sustained COVID-19 infection for nearly two years shows how prolonged infections can give viruses the time they need to mutate into a new variant. While the patient sadly died from an unrelated blood disorder, this variant wasn’t passed on to anyone else.
Because the virus remained for so long, a new variant was created inside the patient—though, luckily, this variant wasn’t passed on to anyone else. Sadly, the patient died of a blood disorder relapse while still infected. The data gathered from this case will be presented by scientists from the Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Center at the ESCMID Global Congress 2024 later this month in Barcelona, Spain.
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