London: Researchers have shown that there are ‘seven forms of disease in mild Covid-19’ that leaves behind significant changes in the immune system, even after 10 weeks of contracting the infection.
They identified seven groups of symptoms as: “flu-like symptoms (with fever, chills, fatigue and cough), common cold-like symptoms (with rhinitis, sneezing, dry throat and nasal congestion), joint and muscle pain.
“Eye and mucosal inflammation, lung problems (with pneumonia and shortness of breath), gastrointestinal problems (including diarrhoea, nausea and headache) and loss of sense of smell and taste and other symptoms.”
“These findings could play a significant role in the treatment of patients and in the development of a potent vaccine,” said study authors from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria.
In a study, published in the journal Allergy, the research team…