{"id":993914,"date":"2022-02-16T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/turkish-man-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-record-14-months\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:09:16","slug":"turkish-man-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-record-14-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/turkish-man-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-record-14-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish man tests positive for COVID-19 for record 14 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Turkish-man-tests-positive-for-COVID-19-for-record-14-months.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A middle-aged Turkish man with leukemia has tested positive for COVID-19 continuously over 14 months, setting a record for the longest continuous infection in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Muzaffer Kayasan, 56, has received a positive test result 78 consecutive times and has not been permitted to be in physical contact with his family or venture outside for more than a year. Turkish law states that anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for seven days.\n<\/p>\n<p>Since first testing positive in November 2020, he has spent nine months in the hospital and five months at home.<\/p>\n<p>Kayasan said that his wife and son visit while adhering to safety protocols.\n<\/p>\n<p>The son, Gokhan Kayasan, made light of the situation when he said: &#8220;We kept saying how positive he is and now the guy turned positive (from COVID) and can&#8217;t go back to negative. &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZcUBR_mD1DI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"78-straight positive tests: Turkish man battles COVID-19 for 14 months and counting\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZcUBR_mD1DI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they first told me I have COVID-19, since I have leukemia, I thought to myself this must be my destiny. This will kill me,&#8221; Kayasan said in a Global News video report posted to YouTube. &#8220;Indeed, it almost killed me. At one stage my weight was below 50 kilograms (110 pounds). This is very difficult to explain.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>He expressed sadness that he can only see his grandchildren mostly through a window.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there anything beyond this? Not really. Therefore, God forbid anyone else go through this. I am going through very difficult times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cagri Buke, an infectious diseases specialist at Taksim hospital in Istanbul, said: &#8220;Because we cannot do a viral culture test, we cannot say for sure whether this virus is still active or not. However, there is a 99% possibility that this virus is no longer active and therefore is not contagious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a May 2021 report by The Whitehead Institute, repeat positive tests might be caused by a process called reverse transcription, in which genetic sequences from the virus integrate into the host cell genome.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212; A middle-aged Turkish man with leukemia has tested positive for COVID-19 continuously over 14 months, setting a record for the longest continuous infection in Turkey. Muzaffer Kayasan, 56, has received a positive test result 78 consecutive times and has not been permitted to be in physical contact with his family or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[261,697,1705,191,998,2218,5143],"class_list":["post-993914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-covid19","tag-man","tag-months","tag-positive","tag-record","tag-tests","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}