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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: nudephil on 02/06/2020 18:29:29

Title: Might COVID-19 be linked to a gammaretrovirus?
Post by: nudephil on 02/06/2020 18:29:29

Here's a question from listener Euan:

I am interested to follow up things I have read by Judy Mikovits about gammaretroviruses. Can gammaretroviruses trigger diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome, certain kinds of autism, cancers, leukemias and lymphomas? Can SARS-CoV-2 activate or wake up a dormant retrovirus infection that then causes the symptoms of COVID-19?

What do we think? As far as I'm aware the link between a gammaretrovirus and CFS comes from a retracted Science article and was found not to hold weight.

Title: Re: Might COVID-19 be linked to a gammaretrovirus?
Post by: Bored chemist on 02/06/2020 18:42:52

As far as I can tell, the gammaretroviruses and the coronaviruses are about as closely related as me and a jellyfish. So, I don't think there's anything to see here.