Thread by @LazarusLong13

A 🧵 on vascular diseases caused by viruses - because CoVid attacks the vascular system throughout the body.

And "late effects" of viruses can happen years later.

Like with polio, 15 to 40 years later.
marchofdimes.org/news/after-eff…

And pinning down late effects can

be very difficult. By the time, the late effects kick in, a middle-aged person will have been exposed to hundreds of viruses.

The purpose of this thread is:

✅ I'm curious about the topic.
⚠️ Urge caution as we still don't know much about CoVid.
🚫 Not to shock.

Source:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"VZV (human herpesvirus 3) is a ubiquitous, exclusively human DNA virus. Primary infection occurs via respiratory aerosols or contact with vesicles from an infected individual and results in the characteristic disseminated rash of ...chickenpox."

Chickenpox (aka varicella) accounts for 7 to 31% of arterial ischemic stroke in kids.

In transient cerebral arteriopathy of childhood, stroke is preceded by varicella in 44% of cases.

In immunocompromised adults, VZV infection of the central nervous system (CNS) was detected in

1.5 to 4.4% of autopsy cases.

Brain imaging of patients with VZV vasculopathy reveals ischemic or hemorrhagic infarction.

Moving on...CMV: 👇

Next, "in acute myocardiopathy and pericardiopathy, Coxsackie virus B infections are increasingly recognized as a cause of primary myocardial disease and may cause chronic cardiovascular disease. "

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3843596/

"...Multiple pathogens have been associated with atherosclerosis"

"Recent data suggests that the risk of atherosclerosis conveyed by infection relates to the number of atherogenic pathogens with which an individual is infected. "

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01…

"Injury to the vessel wall and the associated inflammatory response to injury are now generally recognized as the essential components of atherogenesis."

🛑

That's it for now, please wear a mask - especially indoors.