Muzaffer Kayasan has a sad record to his credit: he hasto 441 days as infected by COVID-19 and has tested positive in 78 tests in a row since then. When he first got sick he thought he was going to die as he had a serious leukemia. But, more than a year later, he is still alive but unable to lead a normal life.
Kayasan, 56, has the longest continuous infection in Turkey and possibly the world. According to doctors, this may be due to their immune system weakened by cancer. Despite having been in and out of the hospital several times since November 2020, she remains in a good mood: “I guess this is the female version of COVID, she’s obsessed with me.”
After nine months in the hospital and five isolated in his apartment, he enthusiastically receives visits from his granddaughter, who stays playing in the garden while he speaks to her from inside through the glass door at the back of his home. . “I’ll play with you when I get good”He tells.
According to a study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, coronavirus-infected patients with a compromised immune system are at risk of prolonged infection. Another from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society shows that one in four cancer patients do not produce detectable antibodies even after receiving two doses of the vaccine.
Kayasan’s doctor, Serap Simsek Yavuz, who is a professor of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at Istanbul University, says this is the longest case on record and that they have been closely monitoring him for any risk of an infection. mutated variant.
The positive tests make Kayasan ineligible for the vaccine, according to Turkish indications that they have to wait for a full recovery to receive the serums. The man, who lost his taste and smell, has asked the health authorities to allow him at least a lighter confinement in his case.
Source: Lasexta
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