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Growing fears that Corona will cause a wave of Parkinson’s disease

Scientists have warned that Coronavirus infection may pose another serious threat to human health, in the form of a “silent wave” of neurological consequences that can follow in the wake of the virus, as a similar long-term effect was observed after the Spanish flu pandemic of the last century..

According to a newspaper report sciencealert Neuroscientist Kevin Barnham of the Flory Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in India said: ‘Although scientists are still learning how the Coronavirus is capable of invading the brain andNervous system Central, the fact that it got there is clear, and the best we understand is that the virus can cause an insult to brain cells, with the possibility that neurodegeneration will continue from there..”

In a new study, Barnham and colleagues suggested that the “third wave” of the pandemic is COVID-19 It may not be a resurgence of coronavirus infection, but a subsequent increase in virus-related Parkinson’s disease cases, classified as neuritis, triggered in the brain as an immune response to the virus..

Scientists confirmed that this happened once during the last pandemic that took over the world, the Spanish flu in 1918, as a form of encephalitis called carotid encephalitis associated with the epidemic increased the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by 2 to 3 times.

Barnham added: “We can get an insight into the neurological consequences that followed the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.“، “Given that the world’s population has been struck again by a viral pandemic, it is already very worrying to think about the potential global increase in neurological diseases that could unfold in the right path. The world was surprised the first time,” he said.

While the researchers acknowledge that there is currently not enough data to determine the increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease in relation to an infection COVID-19 , They suggest that the best way to identify future cases early is to long-term screening for cured corona cases, and to monitor expressions of neurodegenerative diseases..

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