Very Interesting Research on Long Covid - Is this very similar for ME?

[bertiedog]

I listened to this podcast early this moning on BBC Radio 5 which I found extremely interesting and the obvious thing is to wonder has a similar issue occurred in ME. I have found the podcast information from the Naked Scientist ie Dr Chris Smith which is well worth listening to or the transcript is available here -

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/do-dormant-viruses-cause-long-covid

I wonder what others think about these 2 possibilities, autoimmune and/or virus still living in the gut?

Pam

 

[ruben]

I just heard the recording. Would all this not suggest that us who got glandular fever as a trigger for our problems, that our main course of action has got to be antivirals?

 

[SWAlexander]

autoimmune and/or virus still living in the gut

I believe that a virus residing in the gut could trigger the immune system to malfunction. This dormant virus is typically kept in check by T and B cells, but when another virus compromises these defenses, it can be released and cause issues.

Credit Dr. McMillan.

 

[pamojja]

For Dr. Pierre Kory it appears so_

https://rumble.com/embed/v4gkvxi/?pub=33rlly

"ME/CFS has only a 5% back to baseline life-time recovery rate"

 

[lyran]

Could be our "good" old friend Epstein-Barr or HHV-6 which activates with stress and another infection.