{"id":10862,"date":"2025-11-19T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:06:51","slug":"strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/strange-structures-found-lurking-in-the-blood-of-people-with-long-covid\">Science Alert<\/a> A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/revealed-women-face-much-higher-risk-of-long-covid-but-why\">prolonged malaise<\/a>&nbsp;some people experience after contracting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analyzing blood samples from patients with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/life-with-long-covid-comparable-to-parkinsons-and-stroke\">long COVID<\/a>, a team of medical researchers has identified unusual microscopic structures that may contribute to symptoms such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/covids-hidden-toll-full-body-scans-reveal-long-term-immune-effects\">brain fog and fatigue<\/a>. If this is the case, it offers a hopeful target for future treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This study shows a robust association between biomarkers indicative of thromboinflammatory activity and long COVID,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.70613\">the team writes in a paper<\/a>&nbsp;led by geneticist Alain Thierry of Montpellier University in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The discovery of these biomarker linkages not only presents a possible novel diagnostic methodology but also novel therapeutic targets, offering prospects for future markedly improved clinical management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Alert A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the&nbsp;prolonged malaise&nbsp;some people experience after contracting&nbsp;COVID-19. Analyzing blood samples from patients with&nbsp;long COVID, a team of medical researchers has identified unusual microscopic structures that may contribute to symptoms such as&nbsp;brain fog and fatigue. If this is the case, it offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}