NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many survivors of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic of 2003 suffer from persistent mental health problems and chronic fatigue years later, new research from Hong Kong shows.
What’s more, these psychiatric problems seemed to become more common among survivors over time, say Dr. Marco Ho-Bun Lam and colleagues from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who call the persistence of these problems “alarming.”
A year after the disease outbreak, Lam and his team note in their report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, some survivors still had mental problems even though their physical symptoms had improved.
To look at these effects long-term, and to further investigate chronic fatigue symptoms often reported by SARS survivors, Lam and his team looked at 233 SARS survivors an average of 41 months after the study participants had gotten sick. The study participants’ average age was 43 years, and 70 percent were women.
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FWIW, I am all but certain my partner and I had this, which we thought was a really bad flu, and recovered completely from it. No psychological issues for either of us but it did confer immunity to covid-19. Since many governments reveled in flexing their health authority during covid, we can be sure there will be more planned panics. SARS infections were limited in USA and world as respiratory viruses generally are. At that time, we were in the midst of a community that had many infections. ABN
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