Coronavirus Can Attack Brain Cells, Use It To Reproduce, New Study Reveals – By Arthur Villasanta (IB Times) / Sept 13 2020
- A new medical study from the Yale School of Medicine asserts SARS-CoV-2 can infect the brain’s neurons
- It is the first study affirming this link although more research is needed to determine the long-term effects
- “If the brain does become infected, it could have a lethal consequence,” said Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale who led the study
Anew medical study asserts SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), the virus that causes COVID-19, can invade the brain and infect neurons or brain cells, causing damage and even death.
The study from researchers at the Yale School of Medicine offers the first “clear evidence of infection with accompanying metabolic changes in the infected and neighboring neurons.” It also argues a “SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion, but not respiratory infection, is associated with mortality” in COVID-19 patients.
The Yale study also found SARS-CoV-2 forces neurons to multiply, but doesn’t destroy them. Instead, this massive replication greatly inhibits the oxygen supplied to adjacent cells, causing them to wither and die.
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