As the country is suffering from the 7th Covid wave, the BA.5 variant dominating in the world and Omicron subvariant, unveils new symptoms.
As we are already familiar with symptoms caused by Omicron, fatigue, cough, headache, runny nose, the latest BA.5 variant occurs differently. It hits at night and disturbs one’s sleep.
This state of affairs has been reported in Ireland by Professor Luke O’Neill, immunologist at the Dublin Trinity College. The specialist spotted a strange phenomenon of “night sweats" occurring in adults and children, and not related to the current heatwaves, leading to sleep disorder. This discovery has been widely spread in medias from the United Kingdom.
The professor claims “the disease is slightly different because the virus has changed”, he said as reported by The Independent. “And that mix of your immune system and the virus being slightly different might give rise to a slightly different disease - with strangely enough - night sweats being a feature”. Yet, he takes the time to remind vaccination is the best way to prevent symptoms from evolving to more severe illness.
⚠️ Covid warning over symptom of new strain that affects sufferers at night https://t.co/VDoTMh4UXe
— The Independent (@Independent) July 21, 2022
