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Studying macaques, EARA member, the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Netherlands, has discovered the hidden long-term effects Covid-19 can have on the body.
The team investigated the symptoms exhibited by the monkeys after initial infection, as macaques have been regularly used as a reliable model for research into the virus.
Macaques that only had a mild exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus showed no obvious signs of infection, such as a fever, however a closer investigation revealed that even these monkeys had evidence of lung damage, and active virus in the lymph nodes of the animals.