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The CoVid virus causes a persistent loss of smell and taste not by itself damaging your nasal olfactory sensors but rather by triggering a vigorous autoimmune reaction that destroys these sensors.  So say researchers at Duke University after they studied tissue samples from 9 patients with prolonged smell and taste deficits comparing them with 15 controls.

 

The CoVid-infected samples showed thorough infiltration of olfactory tissue by CD-45 and CD-8 inflammatory T cells.  Efforts to find remnants of CoVid viral infection and cell destruction in these tissues using antibody staining revealed none. 

 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add0484

 

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