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COVID-19 News: Disturbing results have emerged from a new large scale international study conducted involving 89 researchers from 136 tertiary centers in 32 countries showing that younger patients below the age of 55 years of age, once infected with the COVID-19 disease tend to develop strokes, some of which were fatal.
The study results were published in the peer reviewed journal: ...
Despite an extensive PR campaign and paying off researchers and even research institutions, media and social medial platforms to boost about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, emerging data is now showing that the vaccines do not have the efficacy that was claimed by manipulated studies.
The U.S. CDC said that individuals who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infect...
Source: Long-COVID-19 News Apr 28, 2021 4 years ago
Long-COVID-19 News: A new cell study conducted by researchers from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has alarmingly confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can bring about long-term gene expression changes in human beings.
The emerged study findings could help explain why some COVID-19 patients ie referred to as COVID long-haulers experience symptoms such as shortness of breath...
Source: Long COVID-19 News Apr 27, 2021 4 years ago
Long COVID-19 News: A new research by scientist from the University of Oxford and University Of Cambridge has alarmingly shown six months after an SARS-CoV-2 infection, one in three people had experienced a psychiatric or neurological diagnosis.
The study was published in the peer reviewed journal: Lancet Psychiatry.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(21)0...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Variants Apr 27, 2021 4 years ago
While countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Philippines, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Oman, Poland etc are seeing a new surge of COVID-19 cases, countries like UK, America, Israel and a few other European nations are under the illusion that the worse is over in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially counting on their massive vaccination programmes.
The real bad news is that come around t...
Source: House Flies Can Carry SARS-CoV-2 Virus Apr 26, 2021 4 years ago
A new study by American researchers from Kansas State University and Agricultural Research Service have alarmingly found that house flies can carry the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus for up to 24 hours after exposure and are potential transmission vectors of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus!
House flies are known to transmit bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases to humans and animals as mechanical vectors....
Source: COVID-19 Research Breaking News Apr 26, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with researchers from the Imperial College London, Kings College London and UCL (University College London), found that biliverdin and bilirubin, which are natural molecules present in the body, can suppress the binding of antibodies to the coronavirus spike.
According to the study team, the c...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Airborne Transmission Apr 25, 2021 4 years ago
A new MIT SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission study findings challenges the current rules of social distancing.
It was found that the risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.
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Source: Triple Mutant Variant B.1.617 Apr 25, 2021 4 years ago
A new triple mutant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has emerged in India and is fast spreading all over the country. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.22.440932v1
Parts of india including Delhi (56%), Mumbai (up to 75%) and Hyderabad (54%) have reported high seroprevalence. But in spite of the high prevalence of protective antibodies and previous fall in cases, the num...
Source: Long-COVID-19 News Apr 23, 2021 4 years ago
Long-COVID-19 News: An alarming study published in the peer reviewed journal: Nature, shows that "Long Haul" COVID-19 can kill patients months after infection. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03553-9
Although the acute clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are well characterized its post-acute sequalae have not been comprehensively described. Here, we use the national h...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Apr 22, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: A new study by researchers from Florida Atlantic University has found that public toilets when flushed after a person who is infected has used it could propel the SARS-CoV-2 virus five feet into the air, creating a high risk for users of public toilets.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Warning Apr 21, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variant Warning: The Indian double mutant variant called B.1.617 that contains the L452R and E484Q mutations along with a variety of other mutations is fast spreading not only in India but has now already been found in other countries including United Kingdom, the United States and even in a variety of South-East Asian countries including one that is the financial hub of the region...
Source: Coronavirus Warning Apr 20, 2021 4 years ago
Coronavirus Warning: A new international study lead by researchers from the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-India and the Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University-USA has made alarming discoveries about the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in waste water supplies around the world and the persistence of the virus in these waters and the po...
Coronavirus News: Italian researchers from the University of Sassari along with Australian experts from Flinders University have in a new study found that a body biochemical call Serum Amyloid A or SAA is linked to COVID-19 inflammation and disease severity.
Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are a family of apolipoproteins associated with high-density lipoprotein (HD...
COVID-19 News: A new study by Chinese researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital, ShanghaiTech University, Guangzhou Medical University and also Chinese researchers based at the University of Western Australia has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMM) and alter the expression of macrophage chemotaxi...
Researchers from the Genomics Institute of the University of California-Santa Cruz have discovered a disturbing new SARS-CoV-2 lineage called B.1.x that has multiple mutations on it that are found in other Variants of Concern (VOCs) but is not a recombinant strain itself. However due to the presence of a large deletion on its ORF8 (B.1.x contains a large deletion in ORF8 ie a 35bp deletion that in...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Oxford University has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus inhibits the host cellular response to interferon.
The study found that human host cells respond to infection by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by producing cytokines including type I and III interferons (IFNs) and proinflammatory factors such as IL6 and TNF.
Typically interferons (IF...
Virus News: Italian researchers have identified a new SARS-CoV-2 mutation called T478K that is spreading at alarming speeds globally especially in Mexico and North America and might end up being a dominant mutation.
Numerous SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged, posing a renewed threat to COVID-19 containment and to vaccine and drug efficacy. In this study, the researchers analyzed more than ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Variant-News Mar 31, 2021 4 years ago
Europe’s New B.1.214.2 Variant
Researchers from University of Liege in Belgium have identified another new worrying variant that is also fast spreading around Europe.
The new variant is reported to have a variety of key spike mutations and a 9bp spike insertion on it.
The new variant, B.1.214.2, has been sequenced 332 times and was first identified in Switzerland, alth...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 And Cancer Mar 30, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 And Cancer: A new study by Chinese researchers from Hunan University has found the presence of thousands of viral proteins known as circRNAs encoded by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with some that have the potential to trigger cellular and genetic reactions that can lead to cancer ultimately.
It is already known that the life-threatening coronaviruses MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1 and SARS...
Source: Arizona Variant B.1.243.1 Mar 29, 2021 4 years ago
Variant News: Despite being warned by certain American search engines, social media, wire agencies and government entities, Thailand Medical News will still continue to report on any latest credible and verified information about the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, coronavirus research data and also about any possible adverse effects or efficacy issues concerning the COVID-19 vaccines. More than eve...
Source: BREAKING NEWS! Deadly SARS-CoV-2 Variant With The Most Ever Mutations And Deletions Found In Tanzania! Mar 28, 2021 4 years ago
The current COVID-19 pandemic is already changing course despite the advent of the COVID-19 vaccines with dubious efficacies due to the constant emergence of various ‘Variants of Concern’ or VOCs that are fast spreading across the world and becoming dominant.
However a new alarming discovery in Tanzania could help accelerate the current pandemic such that a sizable perce...
Long-COVID News: A new study by researchers from Northwestern University, USA showed that non-hospitalized ‘recovered’ COVID-19 patients who had mild or even in some cases asymptomatic conditions when infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus initially, reportied manifestations of persistent neurological symptoms for weeks after so called recovery!
Typically most SARS‐CoV‐2‐inf...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 And The Mouth Mar 25, 2021 4 years ago
A new study by researchers from multi-research intuitions led by the National Institutes of Health and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found alarming evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus also infects cells in the mouth.
Although there were obvious signs of oral infection including taste loss, dry mouth and mucosal lesions such as ulcerations, enanthema and macules,...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Double Mutant Variant Mar 24, 2021 4 years ago
The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG), a grouping of 10 national laboratories that was established by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has discovered a rare double mutant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus circulating around along with a variety of new variants including some that should be deemed immediately as being variants of concern or VOC.
A statement i...
A new study cum review by researchers from the University of Columbia and Harvard University shows that Long COVID health issues are fast rising and becoming an issue that could soon also start overburdening the healthcare systems across the world. The study was published in the peer reviewed journal: Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01283-z
In the COVID-19 pandemic has s...
Source: COVID-19-Thyroid Gland Mar 22, 2021 4 years ago
A new study presented in the last 24 hours at the Endocrine Society's 2021 Annual Meeting (ENDO 2021) by researchers from Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Policlinico Hospital of Milan and the University of Milan in Italy has indicated that certain patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease seem to experience inflammation of the thyroid gland that is different from thyroid inflammation c...
A new study led by researchers from George Washington University and also included scientists from the University of Maryland, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Northeast Georgia Health System, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, University of California-San Francisco and the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine have found that low dose aspirin may reduce the need for mechanical venti...
As new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants are fast emerging and spreading globally, threatening to change the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientist are now turning to studying each and every one of these new mutations found on the various variants to better understand the effects of these mutations.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne in a new study found that the G485R mu...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccines Mar 18, 2021 4 years ago
The study results of a research on the efficacy of Astrazeneca’s ChAdOx1 COVID-19 vaccine published in the peer reviewed New England Journal of Medicine shows that the vaccine has only about 10% efficacy against the B.1.351 South Africa Variant. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2102214
The study findings showed that two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were found to h...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Spread Mar 17, 2021 4 years ago
Coronavirus News: Chinese researchers from Jilin University-China are warning that based on emerging studies and case reports, cold chain transport and frozen goods can help spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus including across borders.
The research team published a letter in the Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/11/e2026093118
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Variant News: Researchers from Instituto Nacional de Salud-Bogotá and Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia have alarmingly discovered yet another SARS-CoV-2 variant in Colombia that is antibody resistant and bears the L249S and E484K spike substitutions. Despite the same mutations having convergently appeared in other mutant strains of the virus, most notably in variants of concern, the WHO ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Variants Mar 17, 2021 4 years ago
A new more deadly SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variant that is able to bypass standard PCR tests has been discovered in the northwestern region of Brittany in France.
The WHO has categorized the new SARS-CoV-2 variant as a ‘variant under investigation’ as French authorities are warning that the new strain is fast spreading and has been responsible for a number of deaths.
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Source: Second-Generation-SARS-CoV-2-Variants Mar 15, 2021 4 years ago
Brazilian researchers have discovered a new so called second generation SARS-CoV-2 variant with a variety of mutations and deletions never seen before that appeared on another variant from the B1.1.33 lineage.
This new second generation variant of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been detected in several regions of Brazil, the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Labora...
Source: Reverse Zoonosis of SARS-CoV-2 and Emerging Variants Mar 14, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by researchers from Colorado State University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine found that SARS-CoV-2 variants are rapidly emerging in animal hosts with alarming implications of the potential risk for human reinfection!
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spillback from humans into domestic and wild animals has been well-documented. The study team compa...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Mar 12, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by researchers from Harvard University Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has alarmingly found that about 10% of blood monocytes in COVID-19 patients are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. These monocytes subsequently die, leading to the release of cytokines, a feature commonly associated with severe and critical COVID-19...
Source: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Mar 11, 2021 4 years ago
The leading prestigious medical publication: The British Medical Journal is raising concerns about the integrity of mRNA molecules used in COVID-19 vaccines after documents leaked from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) following a cyber-attack in December show that some early commercial batches of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA molecules.
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Source: Latest Cancer News Mar 10, 2021 4 years ago
Oncology researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, in collaboration with Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and Columbia University have develop a new tumor-penetrating therapy protocol, that can enhance the effects of chemotherapy, reduce metastasis and increase survival especially for patients with pancreatic cancer. The ...
Source: Recombination In SARS-CoV-2 Mar 10, 2021 4 years ago
American military researchers from the Viral Diseases Branch-Walter Reed Army Institute of Research-Maryland, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences-Bethesda, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research-Maryland have in a new study found evidence of SARS-CoV-2 ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Mar 08, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study led by researchers from University of Milano-Bicocca-Italy which included support from scientists from the National Institute of Molecular Genetics-Italy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University-Italy, San Raffaele Hospital-Italy and the University of California, Los Angeles-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to modulate dendritic cell maturation and...
A new study by researchers from Jefferson Health- Pennsylvania has shown that intellectual disability puts individuals at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to the general population.(Wonder if this would affect the majority in countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Thailand!)
The study involving 64,858,460 patients across 547 health care organizations in the U...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Mar 05, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by researchers from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles along with scientists from New York Medical College, University of Southern California, Stanford University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found alarmingly found that the new SARS-CoV-2 variants are causing viral persistence in pediatric patients especially those with immunocom...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.317 Mar 04, 2021 4 years ago
Australia medical researchers are raising concerns over a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that was found in Queensland in the last 5 days. The strain is designated the name: B.1.1.317.
According to the open access site for researchers, CoV-Lineages that details Pango lineages real time, the B.1.1.317 lineage is thought to have originated in Russia and has been has been circulating in countries lik...
Source: Heart Failure -SARS-CoV-2 Mar 03, 2021 4 years ago
Despite attempts to downplay the seriousness of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections and the issue of Long COVID by Western health officials and experts, more studies are emerging on these areas especially on the myriad of heart issues arising as a result of having had COVID-19.
It has been speculated that a huge amount of excess deaths due to heart issues around the world are in fact been l...
Source: Interleukin-13-SARS-CoV-2 Mar 02, 2021 4 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco has found that human bronchial epithelial cells stimulated with Interleukin 13 were less susceptible to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus compared to cells not stimulated by Interleukin 13.
Interleukin 13 or IL-13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IL13 gene. IL-13 is ...
Source: Coronavirus Research Mar 01, 2021 4 years ago
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute-Sweden, Södersjukhuset/The South General Hospital-Sweden, Stockholm University-Sweden, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-India and Umeå University-Sweden have in a new study discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus typically hijacks the human host metabolic pathways for its replicative advantage.
It has been known that viruses typica...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Yale University have actually identified a series of COVID-19 blood biomarkers that can actually predict the disease severity and outcomes in COVID-19 patients.
Pathologic immune hyperactivation is emerging as a key feature of critical illness in COVID-19, but the mechanisms involved remain poorly understood.
The study team carried out p...
Source: Spirulina Algae And COVID-19 Feb 28, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by researchers from MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute-Israel and also involving scientists from MATIS-Food and Biotech Research and Development-Iceland and the University of Cambridge-UK shows that spirulina algae is able to reduce mortality rates in COVID-19 patients besides reducing inflammation.
According to the study abstract, “An array of infections, including th...
While the Western world especially countries like the United States and the United Kingdom are trying to downplay issues about viral persistence in those that are deemed as ‘recovered’ from the COVID-19 disease , in other countries medical experts are focusing more studies on this issue. In the United States and also the United Kingdom, individuals are stupidly deemed as ‘r...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements-Vitamin 6 Feb 27, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new collaborative study involving researchers from Hiroshima University-Japan, Mahidol University-Thailand, Prajadhipok Memorial Hospital-Thailand, Xiamen University-China and Bangkok Chanthaburi Hospital-Thailand has shown that vitamin B6 may help calm cytokine storms and unclog blood clots linked to COVID-19’s lethality.
The research was led by Professor Dr No...
Source: PASC (Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection) Feb 26, 2021 4 years ago
A new study from the Netherlands involving medical scientists from the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), Amsterdam UMC, Utrecht University, , Leiden University Medical Center and the University of Twente have confirmed that that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is neuroinvasive as shown by viral RNA and inflammation in the brain.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus may cause acute respira...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Feb 25, 2021 4 years ago
A new research carried out by scientists from De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester-UK has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can linger in its infectious state for as long as three days on clothes and even cloth masks. https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2021/february/research-shows-coronavirus-can-survive-on-healthcare-uniforms-for-three-days.aspx
Dr Laird Working On Her Study Cre...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Feb 25, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by biotech company Adimab LLC that is based in New Hampshire-United States along with researchers from the University of Texas-Austin and also from the division of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center-USA have revealed that long-lasting B cells are not able to recognize emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The startling new discovery has hu...
Source: B.1.427/B.1.429 variant Feb 24, 2021 4 years ago
Scientists from the University of California-San Francisco are warning the local variants B.1.427/B.1.429 are not only infectious and more transmissible along with the fact that it is immune evasive but rather studies have showed that it causes more severe conditions in those infected with it and is also more deadly.
The B.1.427/B.1.429 variant that emerged in late 2020 and surged to beco...
Source: Cannabinoids and COVID-19 Feb 23, 2021 4 years ago
A new study by scientists from multi-institutions in Brazil has demonstrated that cannabinoid receptor agonists exhibit anti-inflammatory and protective effects on SARS-CoV-2-infected human heart cells.
Among the extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 is myocardial injury, caused both directly and indirectly by SARS-CoV-2, and which is associated with a high risk of mortality. One of t...