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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...
Source: Medical News-CD19-SARS-CoV-2 Nov 10, 2021 3 years ago
A new multi-country research by scientist from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan-China, Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan-China, Wuhan Institute of Virology-Chinese Academy of Sciences-China, Karolinska Institute-Sweden, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul-Korea, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Kanag...
Source: Medical News- Delta AY.25.1 Sub-variant Nov 10, 2021 3 years ago
More good news! The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus fortunately is still evolving and mutating, spawning more variants and sub-variants as its evolutionary behaviour attempts to contest the antibodies induced by the COVID-19 vaccines and also find ways to get around new antivirals entering the ecosystem.
Health authorities in the provinces of Alberta And Saskatchewan in Canada are reporting that th...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Variants Nov 10, 2021 3 years ago
Hopefully this new study findings will alert more scientists, researchers and clinicians to what we at Thailand Medical News have been saying since last year- every SARS-CoV-2 strain or variant with unique mutations on them, exhibits different pathogenesis patterns and affects the various human host cellular pathways differently and that the human host genes also contributes to different infection...
Source: World COVID-19 News Nov 09, 2021 3 years ago
World COVID-19 News: The official total number of individuals globally that have been infected with COVID-19 have now surpassed a quarter billion whereas in reality the real figures could be a frightening three to four-fold!
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that made its debut in December 2019 in Wuhan-China, thanks to concerted efforts of Dr Anthony Fauci and Obama, has so far killed more than ...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new COVID-19 drug breakthrough study led by researchers from the Department of Infectious Diseases, Konkuk University-Gwangjin-gu-South Korea along with help from Chung-Ang University- Gyeonggi-South Korea has demonstrated that the pharmaceutical product called Hemin can be used to treat COVID-19 via heme oxygenase-1 Induction.
The antiviral effects of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), a...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals Nov 08, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals: Maybe as a result of an oversupply of Pacific oysters due to a trade spat with China, Australians are desperate to find alternative uses for their oysters or maybe there is some scientific basis after all since a study has been published in the peer reviewed journal: Reviews In Medical Virology, showing the possible benefits of hemoplymph from Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gi...
A new silico and vivo study led by scientist from Rush University Medical Centre-Chicago, USA along with the support from Northwestern University, Chicago has shown that the phytochemical Eugenol extracted from Holy Basil (Also known as Tulsi in India) and Cloves is effective against the COVID-19 disease. The study found that Eugenol inhibited the interaction between spike S1 and ACE2.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 07, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by led by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine along with scientists from University Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Germany, University Hospital of Basel-Switzerland, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-USA and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus also infects the human adipose tissue especially ...
Malaysia COVID-19 News: Malaysian health authorities in the last 24 hours confirmed that the first two AY.4.2 Delta subvariant cases have been detected in Malaysia.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham in a media statement said the AY.4.2, which is also known as the Delta Plus variant, was detected from two Malaysian students who returned from the United Kingdom (UK) on Oct 2.
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Despite being one of the few countries in the world with the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate, a new study by researchers from Imperial College London has shown that COVID-19 prevalence in England rose to its highest level on record in October, led by a high numbers of cases in children and a surge in the south-west of the country.
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Not only are the unvaccina...
The United Nations and health officials from Africa, South America, India and elsewhere are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and routine vaccinations could be affected, too.
It was reported that by the United Nations children's agency that the shortfall would...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 06, 2021 3 years ago
In the last 24 hours a lot of disturbing news is being disseminated through various sources. We need help verifying whether these are fake news or true.
We first start with a piece that was published in the esteemed British Medical Journal in which a whistle blower claims that Pfizer’s vaccine trial data was manipulated. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
The article pu...
Source: Medical News - Torque Teno Virus-SARS-CoV-2 Nov 06, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by Brazilian researchers from the University of Sao Paulo has found that individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 also manifest high viral loads of another virus called Torque Teno Virus (TTV) which can also be used as a biomarker for COVID-19 severity or even recovery.
Torque Teno Virus is a small chronically persisting circular negative ssDNA virus reaching near 100% pr...
Source: Medical News-GRP78, Metformin And SARS-CoV-2 Nov 06, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by Japanese researchers from Osaka University shows that that older, obese patients with diabetes are more susceptible to severe COVID-19 infection because the SARS CoV-2 spike protein also binds to GRP78, which is highly expressed in fat tissue.
According to the study abstract, “Aging, obesity, and diabetes are major risk factors for the severe progression and outcome of SARS-C...
A new study by researchers from the Ralph Veterinary Referral Centre, Buckinghamshire-UK, the Université de Montpellier-France, the Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire-France and the Université Claude Bernard Lyon-France has found that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant (B.1.1.7) is able to not only infect pets such as cats and dogs but also cause a variety of heart abnormalities in them.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 05, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 research: A new study by researchers from the University of São Paulo-Brazil has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 infections regulate protein arginylation. The study team also discovered that tannic acids and merbromin can reduce viral loads.
The study findings were published on a preprint server and are currently being peer reviewed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021...
Source: Europe COVID-19 News Nov 05, 2021 3 years ago
Good News! Fortunately, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is taking the lead again especially in the Western world where arrogant but ignorant elites think that they know better about everything and have been trying to control the narratives on the COVID-19 pandemic. Why only in the last 24 hours a lot of stupid British and American mainstream media along with their so-called ‘medical experts&rsquo...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Alpha Sub-variants Nov 05, 2021 3 years ago
Alpha Sub-variants: COVID-19 surges in parts of Europe are not only due to emerging Delta sub-variants but also due to new immune-evasive Alpha variant (B.1.1.7) sub-lineages that is 3-fold less sensitive to neutralization by COVID-19 vaccine-induced antibodies.
Two new sub-variants have been detected from the new Alpha variant sub-lineages including one with two additional mutations G204P...
COVID-19 Herbs: Researchers from University Duisburg-Essen-Germany, Ruhr University Bochum-Germany and the University Hospital at LMU Munich-Germany have in a new study found that phytochemicals extracted from the turmeric root like curcumin, demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin are able to neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in vitro.
To date, the availability of effective an...
Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University have successfully identified 3 key proteins out of the total of 29 proteins found in the SAR-CoV-2 genome that can damage the blood vessels of the human host. These three key proteins were nsp2, nsp5_c145a (catalytic dead mutant of nsp5), and nsp7.
The SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to severe disease associated with cytokine storm, vascular dysfu...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 03, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from Shanghai Tech University-China, the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla-USA, University of Oxford-UK and the Oxford Glycobiology Institute-UK have made a startling discovery of isolating human antibodies that were stored in a repository database dating back more than 20 years ago! The discovery could maybe also have implications about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus!
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Source: COVID-19 Anti-Inflammatory Diets Nov 03, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from University of Limeric-Ireland have in a news study found that anti-inflammatory diets comprising of Mediterranean cuisine, Vitamins C, D, Omega-3 fatty acids and Zinc helps in COVID-19 specially in terms of preventing disease severity.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), otherwise known as COVID-19, has challenged healthcare systems at an inte...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 03, 2021 3 years ago
In a related development, it has come to light that the study findings by a research team from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College-USA, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Hadassah University Medical Center-Israel, Université libre de Bruxelles-Belgium and CHU St Pierre Hospital-Belgium that also included medical scientists from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Source: COVID-19 Research Nov 02, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: German Researchers from the Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, University Hospital Leipzig, Jena University Hospital and the German Center for Mental Health (DZP) along with support from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP)-Brazil have in a new study found that individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infections can develop secondary occurrence of Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis due to mo...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University-USA have reported a case study involving a dog being infected with a new Delta sub-variant called AY.3. To date, it must be noted that there is literally no concerted effort of genomic sequencings of samples taken from domestic animals or even wild animals let alone constant testing to see if they have b...
COVID-19-Eyes: A study by researchers from University of Santiago de Compostela-Spain and the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostel-Spain has found that the infectious form of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is present in the tears and ocular secretions of individuals with COVID-19.
The study team investigated the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctival secretions and tears and evaluated ocular...
Source: Germany's Medical News Nov 01, 2021 3 years ago
Germany’s COVID-19 News: Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor sounded the alarm on Saturday over the return of a "certain degree of laziness and recklessness" as COVID-19 infection and death rates climb in Germany.
It was reported that more people in Germany are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus than at the same point in 2020: according to the federal government...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by German researchers from the Goethe University, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), Hannover Medical School, German Lung Research Center (DZL) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), along with support by experts from University of Copenhagen-Denmark and the University of Kent-UK has found that drugs that target t...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect the inner ears, causing a variety of conditions resulting from audiovestibular dysfunction.
The study team reported a series of ten COVID-19 patients with audiovestibular symptoms such as hearing loss, vestibula...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 30, 2021 3 years ago
American scientists from the University of Utah Health are leading a new urgent effort to determine if salivary glands infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 could diminish a person's long-term immunity to the disease after being immunized or after recovering from the illness. Th new study aims to clarify after many researchers are sounding new alarms that the SARS-CoV-2 could...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 29, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by German researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich has found that SARS-CoV-2 reduces the numbers and functional competence of certain types of immune cells in the blood, ie dendritic cells and affect responses to secondary infections.
The study team analyzed circulating...
B.1.620 Lineage: According to a new multinational research led by researchers from Lithuania, a new SARS-CoV-2 Lineage called B.1.620 has emerged from most probably Cameroon in Central Africa and has spreading silently across the globe silently while the world was more focused on the Delta variant and its emerging sub-variants.
This new immune evasive variant B.1.620 not only exhibits...
Source: China COVID-19 News Oct 28, 2021 3 years ago
China COVID-19 News: China is bracing for the worse as more transmissible forms of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta subvariants have been found in the country as infections emerge. To date it is reported that tfour different Delta Sub-variants ie AY.23, AY.25, AY.37 and AY.4.2 have been found in the country according to virologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and also from the Pasteur Institute-Shang...
Fluvoxamine-COVID-19: The results from the TOGTHER clinical trial has shown that fluvoxamine reduces the risk of COVID-19 disease severity and reduces the need for hospitalization.
The TOGETHER trial is a randomized, adaptive platform trial to investigate the efficacy of repurposed treatments for COVID-19 disease among high-risk adult outpatients. The trial was designed and done in partner...
The alarming study findings by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University-Sweden, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Adlego Biomedical AB-Sweden, Tanea Medical Ab-Sweden, jSciEd Solutions-Sweden, University of Zurich-Switzerland and Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay-France indicates that the normal type of ADE or Antibody-enhancement phenomena that most were expecting to be ma...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 A.30 Variant Oct 27, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 A.30 Variant: German researchers from Georg-August-University Göttingen, the German Primate Center, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Hannover Medical School have found in that the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is almost totally evasive to antibodies generated by current COVID-19 vaccines!
The study findings were published in th...
Source: Autophagy-SARS-CoV-2 Oct 26, 2021 3 years ago
Autophagy-SARS-CoV-2: A review published by a researcher, Dr Theo Rein from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich-Germany in the peer reviewed Journal of Cellular Biochemistry highlights the importance of autophagy in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 infections and also identifies potential drugs that could be repurposed to treat COVID-19. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.30166...
Source: Delta-sub-variants Oct 26, 2021 3 years ago
A new study lead by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge-USA and the MADPH (Massachusetts Department of Public Health) has confirmed that fully vaccinated individuals are responsible for transmitting and spreading the new Delta sub-variants including the the AY.25 sub-variant which has been responsible for a surge in Massachusetts.
Multiple summer events, including large indoo...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new multinational research involving medical scientists from Aarhus University-Denmark, Istituto Pasteur Italia-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation-Italy, University of Ottawa-Canada and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute-Canada has found that the U.S, FDA approved antimicrobial drug Atovaquone has antiviral potential against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and emerging VOCs and could be repu...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations-Immune Evasion Oct 25, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Mutations-Immune Evasion: A new study by researchers from the Data Science Department, SOPHiA GENETICS-Switzerland has found that mutations at a hotspot W152 of the N-Terminal Domain (NTD) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is driving immune evasion.
The study team reported a striking increase in the frequency of recruitment of diverse substitutions at a critical residue (W152), positioned...
Source: World COVID-19 News Oct 24, 2021 3 years ago
World COVID-19 News: COVID Rate Hits Highest Level Since May For Germany
It was reported that Germany's seven-day coronavirus incidence rate reached 100 infections per 100,000 people on Saturday for the first time since May, following a surge in cases in recent weeks. The number hit 100 after rising from 68.7 just eight days ago, the Robert Koch health institute (RKI) said.
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(Note: Before reading this article, with winter fast approaching, and more Delta sub-variants emerging along with other new variants and recombinant strains, we strongly advised that everyone gets vaccinated fast especially since a majority are ignorant and do not have access to other protocols that can ward off these emerging variants.(We are not talking about Ivermectin which does not work on th...
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM), University of Lübeck, Lübeck-Germany has alarmingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 main protease mpro causes microvascular brain pathology cleaving NEMO (The essential modulator of nuclear factor-κB) in brain endotheli...
Source: Cognitive Issues and COVID-19 Oct 23, 2021 3 years ago
Cognitive Issues and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York has shown that that cognitive decline and brain fog can persist up to 8 months after contracting COVID-19!
Individuals who have survived COVID-19 frequently complain of cognitive dysfunction, which has been described as brain fog. The prevalence of post–COVID-19 cognitive im...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Oct 22, 2021 3 years ago
The current COVID-19 surges in Singapore are being driven by a new Delta Sub-variant identified as AY.23. This new sub-variant reportedly spots two new novel mutations that make it even more transmissible and immune evasive and is responsible for the large number of breakthrough infections. It is also said that this new sub-variant also replicates at an astounding rate once inside a human host, re...
Source: Manuka Honey-COVID-19 Oct 21, 2021 3 years ago
Manuka Honey-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Qatar University has demonstrated that methylglyoxal (MG), a bioactive component in manuka honey exhibits virucidal properties against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in vitro.
The study findings were published in the University’s website and has not been peer reviewed by any third parties yet. https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/handle/10576/24...
SARS-CoV-2-Brain: A new MRI study by researchers from Saudi Arabia suggests pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is linked to viral-induced changes in the brain. MRI scans revealed that 57.9% of severe SARS-CoV-2 infected patients had recent brain lesions! The study findings provide further evidence that SAR-CoV-2 affects the brain and causes brain lesions and also generates various neurological manifes...
Source: Antithrombotics-COVID-19 Oct 21, 2021 3 years ago
Antithrombotics-COVID-19: A new multi-institutional clinical study has shown that antithrombotic therapy involving drugs like aspirin or apixaban is not warranted in COVID-19 outpatients.
The researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Massachusetts, University of Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, University of Illinois-Chicago, Intermountain Healthcare-Utah, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Instit...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Oct 20, 2021 3 years ago
Singapore COVID-19 News: Not much was in the local Singapore mainstream news outlets about its record high 3,994 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours with many representing breakthrough infections and even requiring hospitalizations and a few even died despite being double vaccinated!
The country has been reporting more than 3,000 daily SARS-CoV-2 infections in recent days.
It sh...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new multinational retrospective cohort study by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania-USA shows that glucose-regulating medications used to treat obesity and type-2 diabetes may improve outcomes in COVID-19 patients with type-2 diabetes.
It has already been known that individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at increased risk of severe COVID-1...
Source: AY.4.2 Delta sub-variant Oct 20, 2021 3 years ago
AY.4.2 Delta sub-variant: For the last 4 weeks, various U.S. agencies were trying to curtail and suppress any data with regards to the multitude of emerging Delta-sub-variants and even a lot of data were not stopped from being uploaded on online sharing platforms concerning emerging strains and variants. Of the more than 142 distinct Delta sub-variants found so far, some with concerning mutations ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Oct 19, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Scientist from the department of chemistry at the University of Warwick-UK along with experts from Iceni Diagnostics Ltd-UK and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust-UK have developed and demonstrated a new diagnostic technology using sugars instead of antibodies to detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
To date since the start of the COVID-19 pa...
Variant News: Genomic researchers and virologists from the EVT Viral Genomics and Sequencing Lab at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Shreveport are the first in America to sequence and report that a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has been detected in the state of Louisiana.
According to the study team, the new B.1.630 variant, was sequenced last week from...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Oct 17, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence: The COVID-19 pandemic is the best thing that has happened to mankind so far as it shows how incompetent most medical researchers and physicians are and worst, those ignorant bureaucratic developing medical and treatment guidelines from diagnostics, treatments, clinical practices etc. It also reflects on even how stupid majority of the masses are in accepting things an...
Source: Stem Cell Therapies Oct 16, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of California, Irvine-USA, University of Melbourne-Australia, Georgia Institute of Technology-USA and The State University of New York warns about the misinformation linked to ‘overhyped science’ on stem cell treatments for COVID-19.
Many previously published studies on stem cells claiming to be able to prevent or treat COVID-19 o...