Gwendolyn Rak Neurologic damage following acute viral infections may be attributed to an excessive immune response to the infection, according to a new study.Many viral infections that don’t directly infect the central nervous system (CNS) have been associated with severe neurologic disease. For these viruses, including newer viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Zika, the mechanism...
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Immune response, not acute viral infections, responsible for neurological damage, researchers discover
by McMaster University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainFor years, there has been a long-held belief that acute viral infections like Zika or COVID-19 are directly responsible for neurological damage, but researchers from McMaster University have now discovered that it’s the immune system’s response that is behind it. The research, published on Feb. 5, 2024, in Nature Communications,...