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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: SARS-Cov-2 Research  Mar 17, 2020  5 years ago
As new studies are showing that the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is mutating into various strains with different characteristics, (https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-new-research-indicates-sars-cov-2-coronavirus-is-indeed-mutating-into-various-strains-that-have-specific-preference-of-attacking-human-host-) there could be a scenario where populations will see repeated attacks coming in waves ...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 17, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research : An interesting new non peer-reviewed study that was conducted by 19 Chinese Medical Researchers in collaboration with eight different medical research centers and universities have concluded that individuals with blood type A had a higher risk of contracting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and developing the Covid-19 disease irrespective of gender or age.   The study also ...
Source: Covid-19 Global Pandemic News  Mar 17, 2020  5 years ago
Covid-19 News : A spokesman for WHO (World health Organization) announced on Tuesday that two of its staff have contracted the Covid-19 disease. Much to the dismay of many it was not the Ethiopian director-general who is always praising China, nor was it any of it senior team of incompetent experts who failed to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus that originated in China to the rest of th...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 17, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: The number of confirmed case of infected Covid-19 cases in Thailand as of now as claimed by Government health authorities is only 147 with one dead so far. Thai authorities are still claiming that we are only at stage two of the crisis although doctors both at private and government and even some health officials are now claiming a different scenario. The government c...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 17, 2020  5 years ago
It getting terribly frustrating that as the team at Thailand Medical News peruses through hundreds of new research  studies, some peer-reviewed and other not, it seems that  WHO, the US CDC, NIH, government officials and health authorities as either not telling us something, are lying or are clueless.   For instance, we are coming across lots of published studies that despite cert...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 16, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: The Thai government has announced yesterday that the new Bang Khun Tian Hospital will be converted as a healthcare facility to deal with all the Covid-19 cases when it goes into stage 3 but it did no say that the hospital was only a 100 bed facility and neither did they take into considerations epidemiological projections considering that the country has a population ...
Source: Global Covid-19 Pandemic  Mar 16, 2020  5 years ago
The Global Covid-19 pandemic is entering a new phase in which we will see increases in daily infected and death figures, this is going to be a sad but inevitable daily occurrence as we are paying for the price of the incompetency and lack of responsibility of China and the Chinese people that had help spread the disease to every part of the world when its people were leaving the country in droves ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus Updates  Mar 15, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: Health officials today reported 32 new confirmed coronavirus cases, the biggest daily reported to date, bringing the total to 114.   The permanent secretary at the Public Health Ministry, Dr Sukhum Karnchanapimai said that one individual was a patient who had close contact with a cluster infection group of Hong Kong tourists.   Another two individuals got ...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 15, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research:  Another new, yet to be peer-reviewed study by Chinese researchers from the National Translational Science Center for Molecular Medicine & Department of Cell Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China lead Professor Dr Ke Wang, a leading virologist and genomic researcher and a team of 29 other researchers from 4 other medical and research instituti...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 15, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: As the global coronavirus pandemic escalates with more countries going into critical conditions, the general Thai population is becoming more anxious and worried about conditions locally and are gradually losing faith in the government  unless they become more transparent and officially release more data including about the degree of preparedness and measures bei...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Mar 14, 2020  5 years ago
Parents with a newborn may be worried about them catching the coronavirus, particularly after recent media reports of an Australian infant diagnosed with it. The positive news is, the evidence so far is babies almost never get seriously ill from the coronavirus. And even if infected, they may have no symptoms. Even then, the coronavirus could affect infants in other wa...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 14, 2020  5 years ago
Italy recorded its highest one-day death toll yet from cases of the new coronavirus on Friday, according to official data.   A total of 250 deaths was recorded over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 1,266, with 17,660 infections overall, a rise of 2,547 since Thursday evening.   Meanwhile the WHO or World Health Organization said  that Europe was now the "epicentre"...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Mar 14, 2020  5 years ago
US Coronavirus Updates: Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire businessman, has offered the United States half a million coronavirus test kits and a million masks, as the country faces a shortage of kits for diagnosing the potentially deadly disease.   "Drawing from my own country's experience, speedy and accurate testing and adequate protective equipment for medical professionals a...
Source: Coronavirus Drug Research  Mar 13, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Drug Research: As early as 26th Of January, in the early days of the Covid-19 epidemic, Thailand Medical News had published an article calling for more research into the use of Licorice Root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) as a potential drug candidate for the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus as many past research studies had shown its efficacy against the SARS virus of 2003.( https://www.thailandmedical.n...
Source: Covid-19 Diagnostics  Mar 13, 2020  5 years ago
Covid-19 Diagnostics: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology or MIT has developed a new fast and easy diagnostic tests for the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The newly developed diagnostic is paper -based with a turn around time of less than 15 minutes. The patents and commercial aspects of the test are handled by a Cambridge based startup company created by MIT c...
Source: Coronavirus Diagnostics  Mar 13, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Diagnostics: Typically, clinical and laboratory features of both Dengue and the Covid-19 disease is quiet identical and difficult to distinguish.   To make matters more complicated, it has been reported that Covid-19 patients can produce false-positive results from rapid serological testing for dengue.   A study by Singaporean researchers published in The Lancet helps to wa...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 13, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus News: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a strongly worded tweet, written in English on his verified Twitter account, that it was the United States that lacked transparency and were the ones that brought the new coronavirus to Wuhan by the US military. Zhao wrote."When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hosp...
Source : Coronavirus Research  Mar 13, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research: Medical researchers from La Jolla Institute for Immunology, together with virology experts from the J. Craig Venter Institute have isolated potential targets for effective immune responses against the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus which causes the deadly Covid-19 disease.   The team utilized existing data from known coronaviruses to predict which parts of SARS-CoV-2 are capable...
Source: Covid-19 Research News   Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
Reposted due to grammar mistakes in headlines of earlier post! Our apologies. A new Covid-19 research published in the Lancet on the 11th of March which involved a detailed study of 191 patients infected with the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus shows that the viral shedding duration in infected patients was more longer than originally expected. (https:...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
HIV & AIDs Clinics globally are complaining of an acute shortage of HIV drugs plus many that were getting in from grey markers are now complaining that prices have increased as much as 15 to 30 times for generic versions!   One of the reason is that many government are stockpiling on many various types of HIV antivirals as some have shown a certain degree of efficacy though none have be...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand coronavirus updates: Thai health authorities today announced 11 more new cases of Covid-19 infected patients that originated in a first cluster infection case in Thailand. Accordingly, a Hong Kong national had a drinking party with a group of Thais. The group of 15 Thai individuals and the Hong Kong National was apparently sharing drink glasses and even cigarettes but only 11 contract...
Source: Virus Research  Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
A new virus research by researchers from the ophthalmology department at  the Tonji Hospital at Wuhan in collaboration with Tonji Medical College and Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan indicates that the new SARS-CoV-2 can also be contracted on ocular surfaces of the eye through nosocomial  infections and also people who need to come in contact with lots of people eac...
Source : Covid-19 Research News  Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
A new Covid-19 research published in the Lancet on the 11th of March which involved a detailed study of 191 patients infected with the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus shows that the viral shedding duration in infected patients was more longer than originally expected. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext)   To tho...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 12, 2020  5 years ago
As of Thursday (March 12th) morning, there are now 126,054 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 disease spanning 112 countries, 4617 deaths, 5944 Critical cases and more than 2 million suspected cases pending tests globally with figures expected to rise dramatically the next few weeks. The losses from the global economy and stock markets from the last 9 days alone as been estimated to have run into at ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
We apologize for certain countries having loading problems to our website as we have been overwhelmed with traffic sometimes as high as 2 million views per hour the last few weeks! We are trying to resolve server issues.   We also apologize about the uploading a few contents a day as we are also shorthanded with staff but with effect from Thursday 2300 hrs Bangkok time, we are including new...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: Health Authorities In Thailand announced 6 more confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 59.   Of the six new cases one was a A 21-year-old Immigration official stationed at Suvarnabhumi Airport who began showing symptoms on Sunday and was confirmed as infected in two lab tests. Another was also a 41 year old employee from the same airport who f...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: It was announced that the Department of Disease Control (DDC) plans to impose compulsory measures for all foreign inbound arrivals, including notifying personal information and contact information such as mobile phone numbers and email addresses as part of steps to control the Covid-19 outbreak.   Apparently the measures will commence on Thursday and all person...
Source: Global Coronavirus News  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
Global Coronavirus News: It has been reported that an Apple employee at the tech giant's European headquarters in the city of Cork has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the firm said late Tuesday, while many more staff are suspected of contracting the virus.   Apple said in a statement, "One of our employees in Cork has been confirmed to have COVID-19. We are closely ...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research: New emerging studies from China researchers shows that contrary to initial assumptions that it was the result of ‘cytokine’ storms in infected patients that caused organ failures especially kidney failure, the new studies indicate the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus actually enter the cells of these organs through the ACE-2 receptors to cause damage.   Though all th...
Source: US Coronavirus News  Mar 11, 2020  5 years ago
US Coronavirus Updates:  As of Wednesday 11th March 2020, 0630hrs , there are 986 confirmed Covid-19 cases in 36 out of 50 States In the US and a total of 31 deaths so far.   But is even more disturbing is that there could be more than 9,000 silent spreaders of the disease since January in the country and many healthcare facilities in the US have been misdiagnosing severe conditions of...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 10, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: Local health authorities have reported 3 new cases of confirmed covid-19 cases today. The new cases are all Thai nationals, said Dr. Sophon Iamsirithawon, the director for the Health Ministry's Division for Communicable Disease. Of the three cases, one of the cases is a 41-year-old Thai woman who had been in close contact with another confirmed case. She has no...
Source : US Coronavirus News  Mar 10, 2020  5 years ago
US Coronavirus Updates:  Researchers from Cedar-Sinai are saying that more than 9,000 people in America may have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus as of March 1st,  a figure much higher than reported, researchers say. The medical and epidemiology investigators at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles told media, "This suggests that the opportunity window to contain the epidemic...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 10, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Updates:  China government authorities today announced that there was no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases outside of Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, for the third straight day, while major Chinese cities remained on alert for imported infections.   Seriously? Out of a population of 1.4 billion Chinese, where in the rural sites, people are filth...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 10, 2020  5 years ago
A recent study published on an open platform but has yet to be peer reviewed caught our eyes as it was strangely conducted by the prestigious Spiez Laboratory In Switzerland by a team of leading virologists and microbiologists, but what intrigued me was that why would a prestigious research centre like the Spiez laboratory that had enormous funds and had some of the leading specialist post a &lsqu...
Source: Covid-19 Research  Mar 09, 2020  5 years ago
Covid-19 Research: A new research study by researchers from Wenzhou Medical University in Zhejiang province lead by Dr Don Chen revealed that almost all Covid-19 patients exhibited hypokalemia and that supplementation with potassium ions was one of the many factors that assisted in their recovery.   Hypokalemia is best described as low level of potassium (K+) ions  in th...
Source: Coronavirus Health Warnings  Mar 09, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Health Warnings : Despite early warnings by Thailand Medical News in an article dated on 3rd of March (https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/blood-banks-and-hospitals-advised-to-take-precautions-to-prevent-transfusion-transmitted-infections-ttis-of-coronavirus-by-contaminated-blood-) with the support of AABB Transfusion Medicine Board and  Asia Pacific Blood network (though we can...
Source: Coronavirus Research   Mar 09, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research: The first research studies showed that the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease attaches or binds itself to human cells by using the Angiotensin- converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) receptors. This has been verified by so many studies. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-05985-9) , (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0147-1) , (https://www....
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 09, 2020  5 years ago
As of Monday, 09th Of March 6am (Bangkok time), the total number of infected coronavirus cases globally is now 110,087 spanning 108 countries with 3,805 deaths. There is no silver lining in sight as more cases are being reported increasingly by the minute and even worst, epidemiologists are predicting that this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Daily lifestyles and work are being disrupted whi...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 08, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Update: Having the opportunity to peruse through studies, reports and materials daily on the SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 disease crisis, all I can say is that the outlook is bleak but that does not mean that we should resign ourselves to a dark future. On the contrary, we should look at the opportunities during this crisis and make the best of it. (I do not mean selling masks at i...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 08, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Research: (Warning, the following article is based on a research article from China and warrants further study. We cannot ascertain if studies published by the China state authorities and Chinese Academy Of Sciences are peer-reviewed as China as a different methodology when it comes to having medical and science studies published online. Further to this, we strongly advise any individu...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 08, 2020  5 years ago
It has already been demonstrated that due to incompetence by the Chinese Government  and its strict censorship laws, that when even initial whistle blowers in December had sounded alarms about the new coronavirus emergence, the incompetent Chinese authorities  instead addressing the issue, tried to charge the doctors that were raising the awereness.  And in January, even when they a...
Source: Covid-19 News  Mar 08, 2020  5 years ago
The Covid-19 epidemic in Italy is fast spiraling out of control, with hundreds of thousands of Italians manifesting symptoms and crowded hospitals unable to handle patients due to shortage of staff, medical supplies and test-kits. To try to curtail the further spread of the coronavirus to the Southern regions despite already having cases in all 20 regions in Italy, the Italian government intends t...
Source: China Coronavirus News  Mar 08, 2020  5 years ago
The Quanzhou Xinjia Hotel, a designated quarantine facility in eastern China collapsed on Saturday evening (March 7th) , trapping more than 70 odd coronavirus patients, the state media reported.   There was footage circulating on microblogging platform Weibo showed rescue workers combing through the rubble of the 80-room hotel in coastal Quanzhou city in the dark as they reassured a wo...
Source: Iran Coronavirus News  Mar 07, 2020  5 years ago
Iran will ultimately suffer massive deaths and infected cases unless the WHO and UN intervenes as its government is totally incompetent at handling the coronavirus situation despite all their initial cover ups and lies and even tactics of intimidating doctors and healthcare staff from talking to the media.     To compound to its incompetence, it is estimated that more than 23 per cent ...
Source: Covid-19 News  Mar 07, 2020  5 years ago
Virologists, epidemiologists, genomicists and even infectious disease experts are now painting a bleak scenario, considering preliminary reports and studies, that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease is going to continue wreaking havoc for at least 18 months or so globally.   There are basing their predictions on the fact that : 1) The virus is not weakening as it evo...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 07, 2020  5 years ago
Singapore Reports  13 New Covid -19 Cases In A Day, Total Now 130 Thirteen new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Singapore, nine of them linked to a private dinner event at on Feb 15, the Ministry of Health.Two others are believed to be imported cases, one linked to a previous case, and the last with no known links yet. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Singapore ...
Source: Coronavirus Drug Research  Mar 07, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Drug Research: A team of German virology, genomic and pharmaceutical scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research has identified an existing Japanese drug called Camostat Mesylate (trade name: Foipan) that could treat the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   Along with collaborative help from Charité – Universitätsmedizin...
Source: South Korea Coronavirus News  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
South Korea health and government officials are on high alert over the increasing  number of coronavirus  infections at medical institutions and nursing homes, as it struggles to identify the vector for the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease, officials said Friday.   The KCDC or Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 309 new ca...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: The public health ministry permanent secretary Dr Sukhum Karnchanapimai announced Thailand’s latest confirmed Covid-19 patient today. (Friday, 6th March)   A business adviser who arrived in Bangkok from London on February 29 after changing flights in Hong Kong has been confirmed as Thailand’s 48th case of the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the S...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
13 People Have Died Of Covid-19 Disease In Washington State The death toll from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Washington state has risen to at least 13, according to new reporting from a hospital system based in the virus-hit city of Kirkland. Jeff Tomlin, CEO of healthcare system Evergreen Health, said that 11 patients at his facility have died after testing positive for coronavirus.It was previo...
Source: Coronavirus Diagnostics  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
Covid-19 Diagnostics: Medical and biotech researchers in China are developing and assessing new antibody tests in a bid to ‘safe proof’ diagnosis of the deadly SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus following concerns that existing screening platforms were failing to catch large numbers of infections and leading to the premature discharge of patients. The new antibody tests constitutes part of the ...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
Hanyang Guobo Fangcang Hospital in Wuhan, China has reported on that a 36-year-old man died of Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus just days after being declared recovered from the disease and discharged from a hospital, raising fresh questions about the risk of recurrence, the criteria used by hospitals to define recovery and the effects of residual viral loads in the hu...
Source: Coronavirus Research  Mar 06, 2020  5 years ago
As more new coronavirus research is emerging, which Thailand Medical News is dedicated to help disseminate so as to help the global medical community despite attempts to being stopped by a certain American owned social media platform, it is now gradually unfolding that the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is a unique virus that mankind has yet to encounter, and is far more in a league on its own when co...
Source: South Korea Coronavirus News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
A second city In South Korea has been hard hit by the coronavirus and authorities have declared it as a ‘special care zone’ or rather a polite term for an extreme lockdown.   Gyeongsan, a city of about 276,000 people that is located 255km south-east of Seoul has been promised extra resources such as face masks and test kits while the city has been placed in an unofficial lockdow...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
A Singapore Coronavirus research indicates that patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease, extensively contaminate their bedrooms and bathrooms, reflecting the need for frequent disinfecting and cleaning of such areas.   Thailand Medical News has also published an article in early February highlighting the fact that even public toilets can be a sourc...

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