The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that adults can sometimes suffer from symptoms of coronavirus that resemble MIS-C in children, often linked to the deadly virus.
Deemed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults, or MIS-A, the syndrome is not clearly linked to coronavirus and there may not be symptoms to prove that a COVID-19 infection is present, CNN reports.
MIS-A involves the inflammation throughout the body and, in some cases, causes the malfunction of organs such as the heart, liver, and kidneys.
"Although hyperinflammation and extrapulmonary organ dysfunction have been described in hospitalized adults with severe COVID-19, these conditions are generally accompanied by respiratory failure," the CDC's weekly report on death and disease reads.
Blood tests in children who have MIS-C show that the children had recovered from coronavirus in the weeks prior, and the cases of coronavirus present may not have presented any symptoms.
The CDC, meanwhile, has described 27 cases in adults aged 21-50 who had similar syndromes after contracting the coronavirus. These 27 individuals tested negative for the coronavirus but positive for its antibodies, suggesting that they had been infected in the past.
Additionally, much like the coronavirus, the MIS-A syndrome has disproportionally affected minority groups.
Of these 27 cases, 10 required intensive care, three were intubated, and 3 died.
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