An Unexpected Virus Culprit is Found in Long-COVID

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a bigger threat than we thought, and we still don’t know how to treat it.

Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Microbial Instincts
7 min readAug 23, 2022

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When it comes to herpesviruses, once infected, stay infected.

One unique trait of herpesviruses is the ability to stay latent (i.e., dormant) in the infected host for life. In this…

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Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Microbial Instincts

Named Standford's world top 1% scientists | Independent science writer and researcher | Medium boost program's nominator | Powerlifter with national records