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Health: First case of Covid-19 reinfection in the US: a 25-year-old man, more serious the second time
An 89-year-old woman, a native of the Netherlands, has died after being reinfected with coronavirus, researchers reported Monday.
This is the first death of a confirmed reinfected patient in the world.
The woman was being treated for
Waldenström's macroglobulinemia
, a rare type of cancer that is treatable but incurable.
The findings have been published in
Oxford University Press
, and they confirm that reinfection has been produced by a different strain of the virus
The woman was admitted to the emergency room at the beginning of the year with a high fever and cough.
After testing positive for
coronavirus, she
remained hospitalized for 5 days and made a full recovery, except for severe fatigue.
A different genetic makeup
Almost 2 months later, just two days after a new cycle of chemotherapy, she again had a fever, cough, and breathing problems.
He tested positive for coronavirus again, although the antibody tests were negative on days 4 and 6.
On the eighth day of admission, the patient's condition deteriorated.
He died two weeks later.
patient deteriorated.
He died two weeks later.
The analyzes carried out on the woman confirmed that the genetic composition of the virus was different in each of the two infections, in a way that cannot be explained by the evolution of the coronavirus itself.
This supports the finding that the woman was suffering from a
coronavirus
reinfection
.
To date, only 23 cases of
reinfection
have been confirmed
worldwide.
However, the patients had always recovered.
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