Kalliope
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
At 9.13 minutes there's the subtitle "Long Covid and post-acute infection syndromes" where prof. Iwasaki says:
I believe that the ME/CFS is probably of the same disease that people with Long Covid are suffering from, but were caused by other infections. Prior to Long Covid there have been a number of infections, many many viruses, but sometimes bacteria and parasitic infection, that leads to long term consequences. It's only with the sheer number of people with Long Covid that really now is highlighting these other diseases such as ME/CFS that's been triggered by numerous other pathogens. But the symptoms are very similar to Long Covid such as chronic fatigue as well as some of these dysautonomia-like syndromes, cardiac issues, GI issues, many vasculature issues and just inability to control these heart rates or blood pressure or things that are very similar to what we are seeing in Long Covid. It's a wakeup call really for the society to start looking into other post acute infection syndromes, because we are going to be dealing with this going forward. Some of these Long Covid patients might develop in to ME/CFS if they cannot recover from the Long Covid stage of the disease.
I believe that the ME/CFS is probably of the same disease that people with Long Covid are suffering from, but were caused by other infections. Prior to Long Covid there have been a number of infections, many many viruses, but sometimes bacteria and parasitic infection, that leads to long term consequences. It's only with the sheer number of people with Long Covid that really now is highlighting these other diseases such as ME/CFS that's been triggered by numerous other pathogens. But the symptoms are very similar to Long Covid such as chronic fatigue as well as some of these dysautonomia-like syndromes, cardiac issues, GI issues, many vasculature issues and just inability to control these heart rates or blood pressure or things that are very similar to what we are seeing in Long Covid. It's a wakeup call really for the society to start looking into other post acute infection syndromes, because we are going to be dealing with this going forward. Some of these Long Covid patients might develop in to ME/CFS if they cannot recover from the Long Covid stage of the disease.