{"id":29153,"date":"2020-05-11T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/virus-symptoms-multiply-as-pandemic-deepens\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:21:49","slug":"virus-symptoms-multiply-as-pandemic-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/virus-symptoms-multiply-as-pandemic-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus symptoms multiply as pandemic deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every week, it seems, the list of coronavirus symptoms — ranging from disagreeable to deadly, from “COVID toes” to toxic shock — grows longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What began as a familiar flu-like cluster of chills, headaches and fever has rapidly expanded over the last three months into a catalogue of syndromes affecting most of the body’s main organs.<\/p>\n

The new coronavirus can also push the immune system into overdrive, unleashing an indiscriminate assault on pathogens and their human hosts alike.<\/p>\n

“Most viruses can cause disease in two ways,” explained Jeremy Rossman, a senior lecturer in virology at the University of Kent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They can damage tissue where the virus replicates, or they can cause damage as a side effect of the immune system fighting off the disease.”<\/p>\n

Doctors suspect, for example, that COVID-19 is behind the hospitalisation in recent weeks of more than 100 children and adolescent in New York, London and Paris diagnosed with a disorder similar to toxic shock syndrome that attacks blood vessel walls and can cause fever, vomiting and in extreme cases organ failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Three deaths in New York state have been attributed to so-calling paediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, with two others deemed likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In adults, COVID-19 had been linked in dozens of medical studies to other life-threatening symptoms, including strokes, heart damage and brain swelling.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the urology department of Nanjing Medical University, writing last week in Nature Reviews, described patients developing severe urinary complications and acute kidney injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also observed “dramatic changes” in male sex hormones.<\/p>\n

“After recovery from COVID-19, young men who are interested in having children should receive a consultation regarding their fertility,” they advised.<\/p>\n

– Cascading symptoms –<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Does that mean that COVID-19 causes a uniquely broad array of symptoms? Not necessarily, virologists and other experts say.<\/p>\n

“If it is a common disease, then even rare complications will happen frequently,” Babak Javid, a consultant in infectious diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals, told AFP.<\/p>\n

There are more than 4.1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world, but the true number of infections — taking into account undetected and asymptomatic infection — “is going to be in the tens, possibly hundreds of millions” he said.<\/p>\n

“So if one-in-1,000, or even one-in-10,000, get complications, that is still thousands of people.”<\/p>\n

Some of the rare symptoms associated with the new coronavirus also show up with influenza, which kills several hundred thousand people worldwide every year, he noted. But with a crucial difference: “Compared to influenza, you are much more likely to become seriously ill, and to die.”<\/p>\n

The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths is fast approaching 300,000.<\/p>\n

Frontline general practitioners have been the first to see patterns as the pandemic spread across the globe from ground zero in central China in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n

“At the outset, we were told to watch out for headaches, fever and a light cough,” recalls Sylvie Monnoye, a family doctor in central Paris.<\/p>\n

“Then they added a runny nose and a scratchy throat. After that, digestive problems, including stomach aches and severe diarrhoea.”<\/p>\n

The list kept growing: skin lesions, neurological problems, sharp chest pains, loss of taste and smell.<\/p>\n

– A feeling of confusion –<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We started to think that we should suspect everything,” Monnoye said, dressed from head-to-toe in protective wear.<\/p>\n

Some patients were so terrified, she added, that they cowered in the corner of her office afraid to touch anything or get too close to her.<\/p>\n

An internal US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report with a breakdown of symptoms for 2,591 COVID-10 patients admitted to hospital between March 1 and May 1 chimes with such anecdotal accounts.<\/p>\n

Three-quarters of the patients experienced chills, fever and\/or coughing, with nearly as many showing shortness of breath.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These are, by far, the most common COVID-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n

Nearly a third complained of flu-like muscle aches, while 28 percent experienced diarrhoea and a quarter nausea or vomiting, according to the internal report, leaked to the media.<\/p>\n

Some 18 percent had headaches, while 10 to 15 percent were hit by chest or abdominal pain, runny nose, sore throat and\/or a feeling of confusion.<\/p>\n

Less than one percent of the CDC cohort had other symptoms, including seizures, rashes and conjunctivitis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Health authorities have been slow in alerting the public to this panoply of possible impacts.<\/p>\n

– Loss of smell -Until the end of April, the CDC itself only listed three on its website: coughing, fever and shortness of breath. The update included only a few more: chills, muscle pain, headaches and loss of smell or taste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A loss of smell and taste was found in only 3.5 percent of patients included in the CDC report, but experts suspect these symptoms are — for reasons unknown — more prevalent in less severe cases where people were not hospitalised.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have any patients with these symptoms who had serious complications,” said Monnoye.<\/p>\n

The loss of taste and smell, experts note, is extremely rare with other types of virus.<\/p>\n

Another cluster of symptoms rarely found in flu patients appears to arise from blood clots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heart problems, liver thrombosis, lung embolisms and brain damage in COVID-19 patients have been traced to such clots in recent studies.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“When one is very sick with COVID, you can have a problem with blood clots forming, and that seems to be much, much more common than with other viral infections,” added Javid.<\/p>\n

A third cluster of unusual symptoms involve skin eruptions.<\/p>\n

“COVID-associated ‘rashes’ seem to be as numerous as they are hard to pin down,” dermatologist Graeme Lipper said on Medscape, a medical information website.<\/p>\n

A condition known as pseudo-chilblains, or “COVID toes”, has garnered the most attention, with photos on social media showing digits discoloured as if with frostbite.<\/p>\n

Like loss of smell, the symptom — which can cause painful itching and burning — is associated with benign forms of the virus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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