π Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading?
β¦ ‘According to the World Health Organization, the common symptoms of COVID-19 include dry cough, fatigue, and fever.
Sore throat, nasal congestion, body aches, and pains are also common.
However, several other manifestations related to the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, central nervous system, and gastrointestinal system failure is making treatment difficult for critically ill patients.
It is still unclear whether it is the virus itself or the exaggerated immune response of the body that is causing critical illness in about 5% of the infected patients.
The presence of ACE2 receptors throughout the human body provides an opportunity for the virus to invade different organs easily and is a possible explanation why multiple-organ damage has been reported in many patients.’
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π (5 Aug 2020 ~ Frontiers in Medicine: Infectious Diseases) Single Virus Targeting Multiple Organs: What We Know and Where We Are Heading? β€
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