PHOTO: Gregor RichardsonCovid-19's unusually wide range of symptoms, including stroke and loss of smell, can be explained at the molecular level. Prof Kurt Krause, the former inaugural director of the University of Otago's Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases, said Covid-19 affected multiple systems throughout the body. The widespread nature of these receptors was behind ‘‘the unusual symptoms we are reading about’’. Many Covid-19 symptoms, including fever and headaches, were common to other virus infections, but the loss of smell was a distinctive indicator, in some cases, of Covid-19 and loss of taste could also occur. Prof Krause is among a group of researchers investigating antiviral drugs and vaccine development to counter Covid-19.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 05, 2020 00:00 UTC