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Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are trying t...

WHO Collaborating With Google To Eradicate Coronavirus Misinformation Online

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 03, 2020 5 years ago

WHO or the World Health Organization is working with Google to ensure that people get facts from WHO first when they search for information about the new coronavirus that recently emerged in China. WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening of WHO's executive board meeting on Monday that social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tencent and TikT...

Chinese Researchers Say That Public Toilets Can Also Be A Source Of Coronavirus Transmissions

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 03, 2020 5 years ago

Chinese virology researchers have discovered that genetic material of the new coronavirus strain, 2019-nCoV was discovered in the stools and rectal swabs of patients confirming that the virus also can be transmitted through the digestive tract. The new finding was made by scientists from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of ...

BREAKING NEWS! US Chief Of Infectious Diseases At NIH Says Current Coronavirus Test Not Accurate! New Details Indicates A Major Challenge Ahead

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 03, 2020 5 years ago

Scientifically, it is now confirmed that the new coronavirus can spread person to person, even if someone is showing no symptoms. The next in line can continue to pass it on. The incubation period is so long that people may not know where or when they picked it up. Dr. Anthony Fauci, US National Institutes of Health's Infectious Disease Chief New details that emerged last week about t...

China Coronavirus Spreads To 31 Countries With 185 Confirmed Cases Worldwide And 11,370 Suspected Cases Globally

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 03, 2020 5 years ago

Over the weekend, many countries had reported new cases of confirmed 2019-nCoV coronavirus infections with thousands more of suspected cases merging all over the world. As of Monday morning, the number of countries that have confirmed infected cases stands at 31 with a total of 185 infected individuals. The US, Germany South Korea,Hong Kong, India and UAE all reported new cases ove...

No Respite From China Coronavirus Epidemic, Death Toll Now 360, Infected 16,480, Critical 2,041, More Cities In China Turning Into Epicenters

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 03, 2020 5 years ago

UDATE: At 9.00 am Beijing Time, China Health Authrorities revised the figues from those released an hour earlier. The death toll is 362, Infected are 17,250 and Critcal 2,128) Despite assurances by the Chinese Government and WHO that they have things under control, there seems to be no respite from the deadly coronavirus that is on a “rampage’ in China. Current death tolls are n...

Antiviral Drug Remdesivir By Gilead:Most Effective For Treating 2019-nCoV Coronavirus According To Study Trials Published Last Week In NEJM Journal

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 02, 2020 5 years ago

Already at the start of the coronavirus outbreak in late December 2019, Chinese medical researchers and doctors were already treating coronavirus infected patients with a HIV antiviral called Aluvia, also known as Kaletra, which is is a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir and is produced by pharmaceutical company AbbVie. (simply goggle online and you can see that many medical sites were already...

Boosting Your Immune System In Times Of Viral Respiratory Outbreaks

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 02, 2020 5 years ago

In the last few weeks as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in China that is fast spreading worldwide, many individuals have been in a panic state but fail to realize that in actual reality, the coronavirus is even milder than the common influenza that affects millions each year and also kills far more people. The coronavirus only has a 2 percent mortality rate so far, whereas the mortality rate...

Researchers Warn That Wuhan Coronavirus Evolution Should Be Monitored In Patients As An Easy Possible Genomic Mutation Could Be Catastrophic

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 02, 2020 5 years ago

The newly emergence of the Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has put the world on high alert for transcontinental transmission, reminiscent of the outbreak of SARS, also a coronavirus in 2002-2003. Decade-long structural studies by Dr Fang Li of the University of Minnesota, et al. have shown how the SARS virus (SARS-CoV) interacts with animal and human hosts in order to infect them. The me...

Deadly H5N1 Avian Flu Emerges In Hunan Province, Neighbouring Hubei In China With 20,000 Chickens Dead! No Human Cases Yet

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 02, 2020 5 years ago

It could not get worst for China, Bird Flu has struck the Hunan province that neighbors the province of Hubei, the epicenter for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. The outbreak was reported by Chinese officials in the city of Shaoyang in Hunan province on Saturday evenning. Initially about 4,500 chickens died from the H5N1 infection on Saturday while local authorities decided to cull anoth...

Japan Usurps Thailand With A Total Of 20 Coronavirus Infections, China Death Toll 304, Infected 14,395 Critical 1948, 32 countries With Infected Cases

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 02, 2020 5 years ago

As of Sunday morning, the number of countries that now have confirmed coronavirus infection cases besides China stands at 32, with the total number of infected cases outside of China hovering at 178 confirmed cases. There are more than 20,000 suspected cases stretching across 92 countries with about 1, 620 that have taken a diagnostic test and are awaiting results. Certain countries still...

New Epidemiological Study Estimates About 75,800 People Infected In Wuhan And New Epicenters Sprouting Up All Over China

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 01, 2020 5 years ago

A novel modeling research, published in The Lancet, estimates that up to 75,800 individuals in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as of January 25, 2020. The findings of the study could infer many implications as to the actual dire situation the world is in right down along with what possible future scenarios could be. Major routes of ou...

China And WHO Should Be Held Accountable For Allowing The Spread Of The Coronavirus Worldwide

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 01, 2020 5 years ago

Government officials, politicians and organizations worldwide especially in Europe, US, Australia and Asia are now calling for the Chinese Government and also the WHO (World Health Organization) to be held accountable for allowing the Coronavirus Epidemic to escalate and spread worldwide while announcing publicly that they had things under control. The coronavirus epidemic as of Saturday mo...

Biotech Experts Insists That Earliest A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Materialize Is In Six Months And Not Sooner

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 01, 2020 5 years ago

No government or manufacturer will have a coronavirus vaccine ready for use before the middle of 2020, despite an intensive global effort, a senior biotech executive told Thailand Medical News. Dr Stephane Bancel is chief executive of Moderna Therapeutics, one of several entities involved in an all-out international effort to create a vaccine as soon as possible for the deadly SARS-li...

More Than 100 Chinese Tourists With Symptoms In Krabi, Thailand, China Death Toll: 258, Infected 11082, Critical 1,932, Observation 257,320, Russia, Spain, Sweden Reporting Cases

Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 01, 2020 5 years ago

(UPDATE: As of Saturday late morning , Mr. Somkuan Khanngern, Deputy Director of Krabi And Dr. Suphot Phu Kao-Luan, Director of Krabi Hospital, held another press conference at Krabi to announce that the earlier press conference on Friday by the Provincial health authorities were not true and that there are only five Chinese tourists in Krabi under observations and those too most probably had only...