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COVID-19 News - UK SARS-CoV-2 And NHS Crisis Dec 31, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: In the past few days, since Thailand Medical News first broke the warning about the possible impact from Chinese travelers after the relaxation of travel measures by Chinese authorities and also about the lack of genomic sequencing data from China, the Western mainstream media has only been focusing on various issues on China but have failed to report about the unfolding COVID-19 cr...
COVID-19 News -China - New Omicron Sublineages - Lungs - White Spots Dec 31, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: All over China, many infected with the current circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants are manifesting the typical glass opacities in lung X-rays or scans that were witnessed during the early outbreaks involving either the original Wuhan wildtype strain or the Delta variant. Many are also developing pneumonia and ARDS and while a majority recover over time, some unfortunately die within day...
Source: COVID-19 News -China - Genomic Sequencings Dec 30, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Due to pressure from the WHO and mounting comments from governments from various countries, Chines government scientists from Shanghai dumped a huge number of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences on GISAID in the last 12 hours, with many resembling common variants found elsewhere including typical BF.7 and BA.5.2 variants.
https://gisaid.org/
Many other international researchers re...
COVID-19 News! More great news emerging as a new trend has been observed in Japan which hopefully will also spread over to the West soon especially in countries like the United Kingdom, Germany France United States and also France, since the new variants that are currently circulating in Japan have also been now detected in these countries but only in few sequences so far.
According to da...
HIV News - U.S. FDA Approves Sunlenca (Lenacapavir) For Treatment Resistant HIV Dec 30, 2022 2 years ago
HIV News: The U.S. FDA has of the 22nd of December 2022 granted approval to Gilead Sciences for the usage of its new drug, Sunlenca (Lenacapavir) to treat treatment resistant HIV.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-hiv-drug-adults-limited-treatment-options
Numerous recent HIV News coverages indicate that treatment resistant HIV is becoming a major problem...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 -Heart Failure Dec 30, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: More great news for 2023 especially for the COVID-19 minimizers and also for all the morons who keep on with the narratives “that we have to live with COVID-19 or that the new variants are now mild and we are just in a endemic phase and need not worry much!”
Italian researchers and cardiologists from West Vicenza Hospitals, Madre Teresa Hospital and Maria Della ...
COVID-19 News -United States -COVID-19 Deaths And Hospitalizations Increasing Dec 29, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The United States recorded more than 839 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours and more than 122,934 new COVID-19 infections though many local experts there is huge underreporting coupled with the fact about 12 states are not reporting COVID-19 data!
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid-19+deaths+united+states&oq
The same goes for COVID-19 hospitalization data, thou...
COVID-19 News - New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Identified In China Dec 29, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: International researchers are now able to identify more concerning variants that have emerged in China by obtaining samples for genomic sequencing from Chinese travelers arriving at other countries who are not only testing positive for COVID-19 but some who have been hospitalized upon arrival after developing disease severity!
The Chinese authorities are deliberating concea...
COVID-19 News: The year 2023 will start with more than 740 new SARS-CoV-2 variants, sub-lineages and recombinant variants in circulation globally. We now have more than 654 new Omicron sub-variants that have the right viral fitness and are in circulation in varying percentages across the world while there are more than 37 different recombinant variants and also more than 13 different Delta sub-var...
COVID-19 News- New Variants In China BF.7 With C1243F Spike Mutation Dec 27, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers are concerned that already a few new concerning SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages have emerged in China and are contributing to increased disease severity and mortality being seen in the country the last three weeks.
Pic Credit: DamienArt - stock.adobe.com
Just in the last 24 hours, researchers have identified new variant ie BF.7 that posts an additional...
COVID-19 News - China - Human Vectors Dec 27, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: China is adopting a new approach in its global war against the West and elsewhere as instead of just letting its own country suffer the consequences of new variants that are believed to be causing an increasing risk of disease severity and also increased risk of mortality, it is going to unleash these new variants to rest of the world especially to the West when it officially relaxe...
COVID-19 News - BA.5 More Neurovirulence Dec 26, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19: A new study led by Australian scientist from the University of Queensland along with researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre-Queensland has shockingly found that the BA.5 subvariant and its sub-lineages to be more neurovirulent than previous Omicron variants and sub-lineages!
The study findings dispel the c...
COVID-19 News - China Bans Genomic Sequencing Dec 26, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: China is going all the way out to conceal the catastrophic health crisis that is unfolding in its country while the WHO is literally powerless to intervene.
China has announced that it will stop all dissemination of daily COVID-19 statistics with effect from today.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/25/china-to-stop-publishing-daily-covid-figures-of-cases-deaths
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Medical News - Post COVID Hypokalemia Dec 25, 2022 2 years ago
Medical News: Experiencing tiredness, weakness, muscle cramps, tingling or numbness, muscle cramps, occasional constipation, random bouts of confusion, occasional increase in urination, headaches and even light chest pains or discomfort? If you are.... then you are among the millions of individuals who are suffering from mild or moderate Hypokalemia, which is low levels of potassium in the blood.
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COVID-19 News - BA.5.1.2 with ORF9b mutations Dec 25, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: While many ignorant twitter ‘COVID-19 experts” are still praising Japan and claiming that the country had managed its COVID-19 issues well, many are unaware as the mainstream media has not covered how bad things are in Japan over the last three weeks and how things are unfolding there.
In the last 24 hours, Japan reported 177,622 new daily COVID-19 infections of...
COVID-19 Drugs - Molnupiravir Dec 24, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study led by researchers from University of Oxford has found that Molnupiravir that is being promoted by many charlatans and dubious health experts and authorities, does not reduce hospitalization or risk of mortality in vaccinated adults who have contracted COVID-19!
In fact, the overpriced drug that costs more than US$720 for a seven-day course day course has been ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Crisis In China Dec 24, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 crisis is fast turning into a catastrophic nightmare that will come to haunt the rest of the countries globally, not only from an economic perspective but also from threats of new SARS-CoV-2 variants that are possibly arising even as one reads this article.
In the last 24 hours, international news agencies with reporters in China along with concerned Chinese ci...
COVID-19 News - China Death Rates Dec 23, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Reuters, the news agency with close ties with Pfizer has released a news coverage that a UK based Life Sciences Information And Analytics Company, Airfinity has claimed that based on their modelling platforms and analysis, more than 5,000 people are dying daily from COVID-19 in China at the moment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-covid-deaths-probably-running-above-50...
Strep A News: The UKHSA has admitted that the current outbreak of invasive Group A strep (iGAS) infections seems to be spiraling out of control after it found that there has been massive underreporting of actual strep A infections due to a variety of reasons including lack of proper testing capacities and facilities.
The UKHSA has admitted that since 12 September to December 11 2022, the ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Nsp1 & Nsp15 Inhibits Stress Granule Formation Dec 22, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Off late, there has been much heated discussions online about the fallacy of ‘immunity debt’ and many so called ‘experts’ denying the fact that SAR-CoV-2 infections causes the human immune system to become dysfunctional and worse, even with some contracting what is now known as COVID-19 immunodeficiency despite so many peer-reviewed studies showing the many m...
COVID-19 News -SARS-CoV-2 - Ocular Tropism Dec 22, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study involving researchers from South Korea and Australia has validated that not only does SARS-CoV-2 exhibit ocular tropism and is able to get to the eyes of the host through various ways, but it also causes vision issues.
The study comprised of scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology-Republic of Korea, Korea Research Institute of Bioscie...
Medical News - Airborne Meliodosis Dec 21, 2022 2 years ago
Medical News: Researchers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University have discovered a new strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei or B. pseudomallei, the bacteria that causes Melioidosis.
What is worrisome is that this new bacterial genome sequence called ST-1996 is found to be airborne!
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1680677-20221220.htm
Typically, the bacteria is spread through cont...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Structural Proteins Affects Oral Health Dec 21, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University of Plymouth-UK has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 structural proteins affects oral health by causing periodontal fibrosis via deregulating mitochondrial b-oxidation.
Worryingly, the study findings revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 membrane and envelope proteins alter fatty acid degradation pathways in the mitochondria that are ess...
COVID-19 News: Unknown to many as literally no mainstream media is reporting about it, daily COVID-19 deaths are increasing in an alarming rate in Japan over the last two weeks with average daily COVID-19 deaths hovering between 220 to 240 according to official reported figures. In reality, the actual figures are believed to be much higher considering the queues at various crematoriums across the ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 Protein Causes Dysregulation Of Gene Expression Dec 20, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: French researchers from Université de Lorraine, Université Côte d’Azur, Institut de Chimie de Nice, Institut Universitaire de France, and Université Paris Cité have in a new study uncovered the detailed mechanism by which the ORF8 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 causes alterations to the gene expression in infected cells.
It is already know...
China COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 situation in China is spiraling out of control with COVID-19 infections rising at an exponential phase and insufficient hospital beds and ICU wards along with a shortage of healthcare staff is adding to growing crisis. Not only is there an acute shortage of medications ranging from basic NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and Tylenol but even common sedative agents used during...
COVID-19 News - Nasal Mucosal Defenses Dec 20, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study led by researchers from Imperial College London-UK has found that UK SARS-CoV-2-specific nasal immunoglobin A or IgA wanes 9 months after hospitalization or infections with COVID-19 and is not induced by subsequent COVID-19 shots or boosters!
The short-lived first-line immune defenses against COVID-19 may help explain frequent reinfections.
The study team...
COVID-19 News: While Chinese social media platforms are full of personal reports about the dire situation the country is in with regards to the sudden exponential rise in COVID-19 infections across the country as a result of suddenly removing all Zero COVID measures while the country was in the midst of a COVID-19 surge, official COVID-19 statistics released by various Chinese government agencies ...
COVID-19 News - Mucosal Immunity Dec 19, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Kazan Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of Rospotrebnadzor-Russia, Kazan State Medical University-Russia and Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University has shockingly found that SARS-CoV-2 infections can end up damaging the mucosal immunity of the human host!
The study findings have implications in terms of dysfunctional mucosa...
Strep A News: Cases of invasive group A strep, a bacterial infection are reportedly increasing globally at a worrisome rate with countries like the United Kingdom, United States and Canada most likely to be hit badly.
Cases were initially reported in the United Kingdom a few weeks ago but since then, 19 children have died from the infection with another 185 children aged between one to 9 ...
Heart Failure - Defective Desmosomal Adhesion Dec 18, 2022 2 years ago
Heart Failures: A team of international medical researchers have recently discovered that defective desmosomal adhesion causes arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition affecting many young adults especially athletes.
Individuals with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) typically present with features ranging from impaired cardiac function and ventricular arrhythmia to sudden cardi...
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: The current global continuous onslaught of COVID -19 infections that is led by various BA.5 sub-lineages, the BQ.1, BQ.1.1BQ.1.1.4, BQ.1.12, BQ.1.22 subvariants, the XBB recombined variant including some of its newer spawns such as XBB.1, XBB.1.5, the BN.1.4, BN.1.3.1 subvariants and BR.2 variants among the more than 500 new SARS-CoV-2 Variants and sub-lineages alongside recom...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 ORF3A - Acute Kidney Injury Dec 17, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York-USA have shockingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 viral protein ORF3A injures and damages the renal tubules of human host by interaction with TRIM59 to induce STAT3 activation, which typically results in acute kidney injury.
This kidney damage occurs to most people who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 vi...
COVID-19 News - Chlorpromazine Dec 17, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) has validated that cholesterol and ceramide lipids facilitate SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-mediated membrane fusion.
The researchers also found that Chlorpromazine (CPZ), a commonly used antipsychotic drug, could be used to inhibit this fusion and also prevent SARS-CoV-2 cellular e...
COVID-19 News - Salen As A SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Dec 16, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Russian researchers from the Kurgan State University, also known as the Ural Federal University have in a new study identified Salen, a common organic Schiff base dye that is used in dying wool and other natural fibers alongside its use in the detection of aldehydes, can be used as a potential antiviral against all kinds of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
The study team reported on de...
Canada Medical News: There is now an acute shortage of Pediatric ICU (PICU) beds and even beds at neonatal intensive care units (NICU) as the number of critically ill children is rising on an exponential basis daily in Canada.
Already hospitals are facing an overwhelming number of adult patients due to COVID-19 and other respiratory infections but the rising number of children badly ...
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Researchers from Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna-Sweden, the Lund University, Lund-Sweden, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm-Sweden and the Swedish Armed Forces, Umeå-Sweden are warning that the next few continuous SARS-CoV-2 onslaughts will be driven by groups of sub-lineages sharing a phenotype rather than by one specific sub-lineage.
For instance, at pre...
COVID-19 Research - Epitope At SARS-CoV-2 Spike Furin Cleavage Site Dec 16, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from China and the United States have discovered a novel epitope at the SARS-CoV-2 spike’s Furin cleavage site and also a new corresponding monoclonal antibody that can target this immunogenic epitope to prevent or treat COVID-19 infections.
The COVID-19 Research team was led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union...
COVID-19 Drugs - Ursodeoxycholic Acid Dec 15, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new breakthrough study led by researchers from Cambridge University-UK has found that the commonly available cheap generic drug used to treat a type of liver disease ie Ursodeoxycholic Acid (UDCA), could be repurposed to not only treat COVID-19 but also act as an effective prophylactic.
The drug is also not only effective against all existing SARS-CoV-2 variants but also...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Dec 15, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: After yet another autopsy study, this time involving 44 patients who died from COVID-19 and Long COVID, the study team from the U.S. NIH and U.S. NIAID who found active SARS-CoV-2 RNA is various anatomic sites including the brain and various organs, have issued a warning that SARS-CoV-2 is more serious than thought and urgent research is needed to develop treatment protocols to addr...
China COVID-19 News: Chinese government officials have now claimed publicly that it is no longer possible to track COVID-19 infections in the country as the number of infections driven by various SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages including various BF.7 sub-lineages, BA.5.1.7 and BR.2.2 are rising exponentially and its near impossible to monitor especially asymptomatic infections.
With ...
Medical Tourism News - Thailand - Singapore - Malaysia - Vietnam Dec 14, 2022 2 years ago
Medical Tourism: Despite local Thai authorities coming up with a new mediocre medical tourism visa programme that starts in January 2023 and also are constantly beating their drums that their tourism industry is picking up or that foreigners are coming in droves for medical tourism, often quoting unreliable sources or media and associations that can be bought for peanuts to say whatever one wants ...
COVID-19 News : SARS-CoV-2 Evades NK Cells Dec 14, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Numerous studies have already validated that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to evade and also disarm various components of the human host’s immune system, in the process leading to immune dysfunction and also what is now being termed as COVID-19 induced immunodeficiency, which all have long term health impacts on individuals exposed to the virus.
https://www.thailandmed...
Medical News - Pentademic Dec 13, 2022 2 years ago
Medical News: Tripledemic or the state of three simultaneous respiratory infections ie COVID-19, RSV infections and Influenza affecting communities and regions in is now “passe” or obsolete as the situation has now been superseded by a new phase in which the winter months coupled with an in increase in air population in certain countries is now contributing to the sudden rise of other ...
COVID-19 News - Bivalent Boosters - BQ.1.1 - BA.2.75.2 Dec 13, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Despite various governments, health authorities and mainstream media are trying to downplay the dire situation we are in with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic and are concealing COVID-19 statistics and also implications of long term catastrophic issues while making stupid claims that the disease is now endemic or that we have to learn to live with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or that that w...
Virus News - Khosta-2 Sarbecovirus Dec 12, 2022 2 years ago
Virus News: Researchers from Washington State University-USA and Tulane University School of Medicine, Louisiana_USA are warning that the newly discovered Khosta-2 which belongs to the same family of sarbecoviruses as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is not only able to infect human using the same receptors but will be resistant to all current vaccines and monoclonal therapeutics and will be more far more wo...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Causes m6A RNA Methylation Loss Dec 11, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new international study has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 infections lead to cellular m6A RNA methylation loss in host cells!
The discovery is worrisome as accumulating evidence suggests that m6A RNA methylation modulates gene expression, thereby regulating cellular processes ranging from cell self-renewal, differentiation, invasion and apoptosis. Loss of m6A RNA ...
Measles News -South Africa Outbreak Dec 10, 2022 2 years ago
Measles News: The South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) is reporting a rise in measles cases in 4 of the 9 provinces in the country following a measles outbreak that was reported in the province of Limpopo in mid-October 2022.
https://www.nicd.ac.za/south-african-measles-outbreak-2022-measles-outbreak-in-four-provinces/
As of date, there has been a total of 137 la...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Found In Penis Tissues Dec 10, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A study by researchers from Istanbul University, Turkey has found evidence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in penile tissues of men who recovered from COVID-19 up to one month!
The SARS-Cov-2 virus was found in the corpus cavernosum region of the penis which is the "cave-like body" of the penis and is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue, which c...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Causes Vascular Leaks Dec 10, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of California – Berkeley has found that the toxic spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are able to cause barrier dysfunction and vascular leaks in the infected, contributing to disease severity and also to various long COVID issues.
Thailand Medical News past COVID-19 News coverages have already explained that COVID-19 is b...
COVID-19 News - BQ.1.1- Enhanced Bindings and Fusogenicity Dec 10, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study led by Japanese researchers from world famous Sato lab at the Division of Systems Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo and also involving scientists from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University has found that the current predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron...
COVID-19 News - United States - United Kingdom Dec 09, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Despite the sadness in seeing fellow humans suffer and die, we cannot help it and laugh and feel that they deserve it especially when some of these lower-life forms from the West keep on insisting stupidly that COVID-19 is over or that it is now mild or that that it is now endemic and we must learn to live with it or that there is no need for masking or taking safety precautions etc...
COVID-19 News - Australia Excess Death Rates Dec 08, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The Australian Bureau of Statistics last month released the latest mortality data that alarmingly showed that there had been 128,797 deaths from January 1 to August 31, which was 17 per cent higher than the historical average.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release
The data reflects an extra 18,671 deaths just f...
Virus News - Alongshan Virus (ALSV) Dec 08, 2022 2 years ago
Virus News: Researchers from the Institute of Virology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland have issued warnings about the discovery of the novel Alongshan Virus (ALSV) in ticks in Switzerland with possible implications that the virus could be now widespread not only in Switzerland but in many parts of Europe!
The Alongshan virus (ALSV) is a member of the unclassi...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Diabetics - SGLT-2 Inhibitors Dec 08, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from Fujian Medical University -China, Fujian Provincial Hospital-China and Fujian Academy of Medical Sciences-China has found that diabetics taking SGLT-2i drugs like canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin prior to contracting COVID-19 have reduced adverse outcomes.
SGLT2i or sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors are a class of prescription...