{"id":85605,"date":"2020-07-31T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16644"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:44:07","slug":"is-sars-cov-2-a-latent-virus-which-can-recur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-sars-cov-2-a-latent-virus-which-can-recur\/","title":{"rendered":"Is SARS-CoV-2 a latent virus which can recur?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Scientists have said that COVID-19 could be a latent virus as a Delhi policeman tested positive from Covid-19 within one and a half months of having recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What is Latent Viral Infection? <\/strong>It is an infection that is inactive or dormant and does not replicate within the host.However,it possesses the capacity to be reactivated at some point causing a flare-up of the disease much later.<\/li><li><strong>Is it similar to active infection? <\/strong>It is opposite to active infections as the virus in active infections are actively replicating and potentially causing symptoms.<\/li><li><strong>Does it spread? <\/strong>Latent viral infections can be reactivated into a lytic form (the replication of a viral genome).The ability to move back and forth from latent to lytic infections helps the virus spread from infected individuals to uninfected individuals&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Examples<\/strong> <strong>of LVI: <\/strong>Herpes simplex viruses type 1 and 2, varicella-zoster virus,HIV, Epstein-Barr virus(human herpesvirus 4) and cytomegalovirus.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists have said that COVID-19 could be a latent virus as a Delhi policeman tested positive from Covid-19 within one and a half months of having recovered. Facts: What is Latent Viral Infection? It is an infection that is inactive or dormant and does not replicate within the host.However,it possesses the capacity to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-sars-cov-2-a-latent-virus-which-can-recur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is SARS-CoV-2 a latent virus which can recur?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2994],"class_list":["post-85605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-latent-viral-infection","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777347,"cached_date":1704857668},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}