Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
Finding similarities between post-infectious illnesses could lead to better treatments
SOME INFECTIONS—HIV/AIDS, for example—are chronic. If you catch one you are stuck with it indefinitely, unless a treatment exists to clear away the guilty pathogen. Many, though, are acute. Unless they kill you, your immune system will do the clearing and you can carry on as before.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Peering through the fog”
From the February 24th 2024 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the editionMore from Science & technology
How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
A healthy lifestyle can prevent or delay almost half of cases
GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
Beware model-makers marking their own homework
How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
“Raven Sentry” was a successful experiment in open-source intelligence
Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
The promising treatments still face technical and economic hurdles, though
How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
It is pioneering acoustic detection, with surprising success
The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
Nodules on the seabed, rather than photosynthesis, are the source of the gas