{"id":1959,"date":"2022-12-27T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2022-12-27T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:29:14","slug":"covid-isnt-just-infecting-you-it-could-be-reactivating-viruses-that-have-been-dormant-in-your-body-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/27\/covid-isnt-just-infecting-you-it-could-be-reactivating-viruses-that-have-been-dormant-in-your-body-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID isn\u2019t just infecting you\u2014it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2022\/12\/26\/is-long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-myalgic-encephalomyelitis\/\">Fortune<\/a>) You had COVID a few months ago and recovered\u2014but things still aren\u2019t quite right. When you stand up, you feel dizzy, and your heart races. Even routine tasks leave you feeling spent. And what was once a good night\u2019s sleep no longer feels refreshing. Long COVID, right? It may not be so simple. A mild or even an asymptomatic case of COVID can cause reservoirs of some viruses you\u2019ve previously battled to reactivate, potentially leading to symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome\u2014a condition that resembles long COVID, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fimmu.2022.949787\/full\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study<\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Frontiers in Immunology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"EQD  MSNb\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fortune) You had COVID a few months ago and recovered\u2014but things still aren\u2019t quite right. When you stand up, you feel dizzy, and your heart races. Even routine tasks leave you feeling spent. And what was once a good night\u2019s sleep no longer feels refreshing. Long COVID, right? It may not be so simple. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/1959","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=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}