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A Rare Neurological Condition Has Been Linked to COVID-19 in 21 Countries
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 28 APRIL 2021 | DAVID NIELD

Posted on 04/28/2021 7:12:00 AM PDT by Red Badger

MRI showing inflammation of the spinal cord. (Roman et al., Frontiers in Immunology, 2021)

It feels like it's been a lot longer, but the first case of COVID-19 was officially recorded in December 2019. Researchers are continuing to investigate the full effects of this disease, including unusual ones, and a new analysis has now linked the infection to a rare neurological condition.

Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) – an inflammation of the spinal cord which can cause pain, paralysis and sensory problems – was identified in 43 adult COVID-19 cases across 21 countries, with patient ages ranging from 21 to 73, and also 3 children aged 3 to 14 years old.

The review collects together previous research and case reports, and according to the team behind it, the data are enough to warrant further investigation. In any given year, the incidence of ATM is estimated to be just 1.34 to 4.6 cases per million people.

By contrast, during a 10-month period, the incidence of ATM amongst COVID-19 patients alone has ended up being around 0.5 cases per million, setting off red flags for the researchers.

"We found ATM to be an unexpectedly frequent neurological complication of COVID-19," write the researchers. "Most cases (68 percent) had a latency of 10 days to 6 weeks that may indicate post-infectious neurological complications mediated by the host's response to the virus."

The new research adds to what we already know regarding COVID-19 and neurological complications: the disease has been associated with numerous nervous system issues, such as a lingering 'brain fog' effect.

In these 43 cases, spinal cord lesions were found to lead to quadriplegia and paraplegia, with other associated problems including a loss of bladder control. The research was undertaken after a case was discovered in Panama.

Further cases were then collected from scientific literature published between March 2020 to January 2021.

"This review confirms that ATM is not uncommon as a neurological complication associated with COVID-19 infection around the world, responsible perhaps for 1.2 percent of all neurological complications caused by this coronavirus," the team concludes.

Since ATM is known to be an immune-mediated condition (meaning the primary cause is unclear, but there's an involvement of our immune system and inflammatory processes in the body), the researchers indicate there are some potential immune mechanisms that could explain how SARS-CoV-2 may lead to ATM.

Furthermore, the team also notes that three ATM cases occurred in AstraZeneca vaccine trials. While each was investigated, the researchers note in this study that they might provide a clue as to the immune mechanisms involved.

"The pathogenesis of ATM remains unknown, but it is conceivable that SARS-CoV-2 antigens – perhaps also present in the AZD1222 COVID-19 vaccine or its chimpanzee adenovirus adjuvant – may induce immune mechanisms leading to the myelitis," they write.

Further studies should help find more answers and the antigens involved, but it's another reminder that we're still a long way from understanding everything that COVID-19 brings with it, even as vaccines roll out across the world.

Previous research has identified complications with pregnancies for people who contract COVID-19, and there's also the ongoing problem of long COVID – those who suffer with symptoms for many months after largely getting through the initial illness.

While the coronavirus might be coming under control in more countries in the world – despite the threat of new strains – research into the effects of COVID-19 are going to carry on for a long time after the pandemic is over.

The research has been published in Frontiers in Immunology.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: atm; chinavirus; covid; inflammation; myelitis; neurological; sideeffects; spinalcord; virus
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To: Abathar

But isn’t it still less per million?


41 posted on 04/28/2021 6:13:19 PM PDT by moonhawk (Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Asking for a friend.)
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To: SecAmndmt

Thx!!


42 posted on 04/28/2021 6:20:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: metmom; SecAmndmt

MATH +

Protocols....

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus-protocol/


43 posted on 04/28/2021 6:22:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: David Chase
Another excellently written article by a lay person mustering up vaccine fear and clicks......

You say that like its a bad thing.

Fear works (flight or fight) and is responsible for the continuation of the human race.

What if the only tribe of caveman to date had looked over the lip of the volcano and said, 'Don't be afraid. Lets' jump down and see what that red stuff is".

As for 'clicks', those too are a good thing. There is no journalism anymore, outside the internet. More 'clicks' means more eyes on.

#WeAreTheNewsNow

p.s. You need to go to the Canned Response store for some new material.


44 posted on 04/28/2021 6:34:43 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Jane Long

Heh, if they gave me that much ascorbic acid, they’d have to give me massive doses of prednisone.

I’m allergic to it and can do only enough to keep symptoms of deficiency at bay. The amounts they recommend would put me in the ER.


45 posted on 04/28/2021 6:42:23 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom

“What is MATH + ?”

It is the cv19 hospital protocol used by FLCCC.

Here’s a related story:

https://www.click2houston.com/health/2020/04/17/local-hospital-using-experimental-drug-treatment-in-hopes-of-saving-lives-of-covid-19-patients/

Dr Kory said that the protocol was presented to the Trump WH on 4 different occasions in 2020. No response, probably due to Fauci and Pharma intervention.


46 posted on 04/28/2021 8:05:45 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: metmom

Have you not found a form of vit C you are not allergic to?


47 posted on 04/28/2021 8:06:53 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: SecAmndmt

Not yet, but I’m looking.


48 posted on 04/28/2021 9:52:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: null and void; Jan_Sobieski; Tilted Irish Kilt; Jane Long; Cathi; ransomnote

49 posted on 04/28/2021 10:13:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Red Badger
My late wife developed Acute transverse myelitis in 1985. I witnessed the onset which in about two hours time she became an incomplete C-5/C-6 level quadriplegic. She had no other health issues except she was very run down and wasn't taking good care of herself because of some personal reasons including being deserted with two daughters to raise on a CNA's income.

This was two months before we married. It was actually Labor Day 1985 I met her and her teenage daughters at the mall to catch a movie and she collapsed in the Food Court.

She was hospitalized for a total of 6 months during which going into the third month we married. Three months was a regular hospital stay and another three months in a spinal rehab unit in Tennessee.

During her therapy sessions they began measuring her limbs and discovered her arms were shorter than normal and saw some deformities consistent with Polio. She was about 4' 10" and at onset weighed less then 90 lbs. She was 35 yrs old at onset so Polio was quite possible at a very young age as she was born in 1950.

The Neurologist gave her 5 years life expectancy. Over the course of a year she gained back her arms and hands enough to feed herself, read a book, etc. She lived 29 and a half years with it confined to a motorized wheelchair. She passed in March 2015. Not much was known about Acute transverse myelitis then and I imagine not that much has been learned as the Neurologist said it was rare. I saw him in the hospital about a month after she passed wand I was visiting a relative. We talked a few minutes in the hallway and I said you gave her 5 years and she lived over 29. He said that if it happened today it would still be the same prognoses.

She had taken no shots nor vaccines. That was one of the first questions they asked because at first they were thinking Gulian Barre Syndrome but her repertory system wasn't causing any problems. They finally got MRI technology and saw the narrowing at C5/C-6 level and made the diagnoses about a year later.

50 posted on 04/28/2021 10:17:30 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: cva66snipe

Read post 10 of an article I posted in early 2015 about two monthe before my wife passed. The article I posted then was about a case of it in Nashville in a 14 yr old. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3250930/posts


51 posted on 04/28/2021 10:31:23 PM PDT by cva66snipe
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To: Red Badger

More fear porn. They tried this a couple weeks ago by claiming Covid passed the blood brain barrier causing a neurodegenerative disorders. Some on our side got this mixed up and thought they meant the Vaccine caused it. The fear mongers dropped the fear porn after that.


52 posted on 04/29/2021 5:15:10 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: cva66snipe
I'm sorry about your wife. Shedding the live virus from Polio vaccine
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34082627

in India there is over 50,000 people that are palatalized from the vaccine when the have Zero cases of polio. They don't track shedding.
Polio programme: let us declare victory and move on at Indian J Med Ethics Apr-Jun 2012
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22591873/

53 posted on 04/29/2021 5:28:55 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

palatalized == paralyzed


54 posted on 04/29/2021 5:31:42 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Red Badger

All depends on who/what you believe :)

When I was diagnosed, 25 years ago, it was thought to be linked to the Hep B vaccine, We fought the system in order to keep our son from having to have it, but we won and although he went to three different Universities (one for AA, one for BA, and one for Masters) because in those days they were linking the Hep B vax to MS, and working in health care, I had to take the series of three shots...6 months later I started having MS symptoms. It was later “proved” that MS and that Hep B were not linked to MS.

https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/multiple-sclerosis-prognosis-life-expectancy/

Here’s more info:

What triggers multiple sclerosis?
The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown. It’s considered an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues. In the case of MS , this immune system malfunction destroys the fatty substance that coats and protects nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord (myelin).Jun 12, 2020

What viruses are linked to MS?
Viruses Associated with MS
Measles Virus. The association of measles virus infection and MS was extensively studied due to the ability of measles virus to induce PIE as well as a chronic, progressive neurologic disease,
SSPE. ...
HHV-6. ...
EBV. ...
Other Herpesviruses. ...
Retroviruses.


55 posted on 04/29/2021 6:15:23 PM PDT by dawn67yo
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