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Man dies after being infected with Covid-19 for 613 days in the Netherlands
The patient first tested positive in February 2022 and died in October 2023, still infected.
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A 72-year-old man was infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus for nearly two years before he died. According to researchers at Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands, the patient, who has not been identified, first tested positive in February 2022 and died in October 2023, still infected.
The victim suffered from a blood disorder and was unable to produce enough antibodies to fight off the virus, according to the U.S. magazine Time.
The man had even been vaccinated with several doses of vaccine before becoming infected with the Omicron variant and, after several tests, it was found that the virus had developed resistance to Sotrovimab, a Covid-19 antibody treatment.
Over time, the virus underwent more than 50 mutations, including some that suggested an increased ability to evade the immune system.
"This case highlights the risk for persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections in immunocompromised individuals," the researchers were quoted as saying by TIME. "We emphasize the importance of continued genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 evolution in immunocompromised individuals with persistent infection."
This SARS-CoV-2 infection, which lasted 20 months, is the longest ever recorded. However, according to the researchers, "there was no documented transmission of the highly mutated variant to secondary cases in the community."
Details of the case will be presented next week at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona, Spain.
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