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The Average Person Carries Between 8 And 12 Dormant Viruses In Their Body. Now It Seems COVID-19 Can Wake Them Up Again

More than half of 1,100 hospitalized patients had at least one dormant-virus reactivation, and researchers linked the findings to worse COVID-19 outcomes and long COVID.

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Dormant viruses don’t usually cause symptoms, but a large study suggests reactivation could cause more of a problem for people infected with COVID than scientists believed.

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AGI - Severe Covid may reactivate latent viruses in the body: in 1,154 patients followed in 20 U.S. research hospitals 11 viruses were detected reactivated in the first 40 days of hospitalization, including Epstein-Barr, herpes simplex 1 and cytomegalovirus. The reactivation of the Anelloviridae, a family of little known viruses present in latent form in about 90% of the population, was also significantly associated with long-term physical disab…

By analyzing the records of more than 1,000 people hospitalized for the serious form of VOCID-19, researchers have discovered that the disease is reactivating a multitude of other dormant viruses in the body. The different viral families seem to reactivate each at their own pace and some viral reactivations may be associated with long-term VOCID. [...] This article The VOCID-19 reactivates an army of dormant viruses in the body, according to a s…

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Trust My Science broke the news on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
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