A U.K. study showed that symptoms of a cold can linger well beyond the main period of illness, suggesting that like long Covid, 'long colds' also exist.
The study, published Friday in scientific journal The Lancet, showed that non-Covid infections can be associated with a range of illnesses more than four weeks after the initial infection.
Adenovirus .LONDON — A U.K. study showed that symptoms of a cold can linger well beyond the main period of illness, suggesting that rather like "long Covid," "long colds" can also exist., showed that non-Covid infections can be associated with a range of illnesses more than four weeks after the initial infection.
"Post-acute infection syndromes are not a new phenomenon; indeed, many cases of chronic fatigue syndrome are reported to follow an infection-like episode. Nonetheless, these syndromes often go undiagnosed owing to the wide range of symptoms and lack of diagnostic tests," an introduction to the research on The Lancet website said.
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