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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...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus And Covid-19 News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
4 new Covid-19 patients in Thailand have been announced by Thailand Public Health Ministry on Thursday, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 47. So far 31 have ‘recovered’ and one died while 15 remain hospitalized. The Public Health Ministry also said that about 3,890 patients are under investigation, of which 1,570 are hospitalized.   The four new co...
Source : Coronavirus News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
As the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is an extremely new virus that is fast spreading globally and wreaking havoc, there have been no prior verified studies on it and the medical community is only just beginning to discover new facets about it day by day. As the coronavirus itself is also evolving, some of these information becomes absolute and are superseded by new data that is available. Chinese re...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
While we still have lots of ignorant “medical experts” and charlatans saying publicly on media than the new Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is comparable to that of the common cold or influenza, more studies are emerging from China and elsewhere that this far more than this.   WHO or World health officials have now publicly now announced that the mo...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Mar 05, 2020  5 years ago
Genomic and virology researchers from Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai have identified two possible strains of the coronavirus, one more aggressive and another slightly passive, circulating in humans and causing infections. They also believe that the coronavirus has mutated at least more than once.   The latest study is published in the ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand coronavirus breakouts have yet to even get into a real serious situation but already the country is facing an acute mask shortage despite being assured  a few weeks ago by the Minister of Commerce, Jurin Laksanawisit from the Democrat party in a PR Blitz that he had already ensured that the country had enough stockpiles and production capacity. To date, no mask are available for ...
Source: Coronavirus Diagnostics  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Diagnostics: A new study by Chinese researchers which has been peer reviewed and published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) details the clinical observations Covid-19 related pneumonia that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. This would help healthcare professionals especially radiologists and pulmonologists to have a reference basis when diagnosing the disease using...
Source : South Korea Coronavirus News  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
South Korea Coronavirus situation continues to escalate with no slowdown in sight. In the last 24 hours, 435 new cases was detected, bringing the infected toll to 5,621 and also 1 new death was reported, briningg the number dead to 33 while 27 patients are in critical condition. There also more than 420,000 suspected cases being investigated and tested all over the country.   Jung Eun-kyeon...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
While China has been claiming that it death and infected cases have been dropping while the are no real audits or international entities to prove that it is so with the exception of it staunch ally WHO, which themselves have no access to the real conditions of the country except on hearsay, a new problem is gradually emerging which was already reported in the past In Thailand Medical News, ie the ...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Death Toll In America Rises To Nine The death toll in US from the coronavirus rose to nine on Tuesday, all in the state of Washington and many of them residents of the same nursing home. All of the deaths have been in the western state, eight in King County, which encompasses Seattle, and one in neighboring Snohomish County. Nationwide, there are more than 118 confirmed cases, on both ...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 04, 2020  5 years ago
Homeland Security Office In Washington Shut Amid Employee Infection Fears The US Department of Homeland Security closed an office in Washington State early Tuesday amid fears that one of its employees may have contracted the coronavirus. Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf told a hearing in Congress that the employee had reported feeling unwell in the wake of visiting a relative in the King County, Was...
Source : Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
The AABB Transfusion Medicine Board has issued guidelines to all Global Blood Banks and hospitals with regards to how to deal with the current SAR-CoV-2 coronavirus situation and to avoid any possibility of TTIs or Transfusion Transmitted Infections of the coronavirus. To date no such infection has been officially reported worldwide. (http://www.aabb.org/advocacy/regulatorygovernment/Documents/Imp...
Source : Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: Thai health authorities have announced that they had raided an illegal factor in the province of Saraburi that was recycling used face masks to be sold at exorbitant prices back in the various stores in Thailand.   Acting on a tip off, that the facility illegally recycled used face masks, police and health authorities raided the factory at Nongsuong district in S...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: It was reported today that a senior Thai government minister said that Thailand has no plans to quarantine any of the Thai illegal workers that have been asked to return by the South Korean authorities who will waiver any legal issues against them as the coronavirus situation escalates in South Korea. Being illegals, these Thais have no rights to free healthcare in So...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
The World Health Organization, a ‘paper tiger’ organization that many are wondering  if it is ‘owned‘ by China, has now announced that it now collaborating with a social media company that is based in China called Tik Tok to disseminate information on the coronavirus.   Many have described the platform as being only for the ‘intellectually challenged&rsquo...
Source: South Korea Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
South Korea reported 477 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the last 12 hours; bringing the total in the country to now 4812. Another 6 deaths was also confirmed, bringing the death toll to 34 while another 29 are in critical condition.   Though all nine provinces in Korea have now been affected, Daegu in North Gyeongsang is the worst affected city with both the city and province fas...
Source: US Coronavirus News  Mar 03, 2020  5 years ago
A couple of days ago, President Trump announced in public that the coronavirus was of low threat to the US. He had made numerous statements in the past in public that the coronavirus was even milder than the influenza. He then appointed Vice-President Mike Spence to head a task force on the coronavirus, a person who had a tracked record of health management blunders including when he was governor ...
Source: Coronavirus Drug Research   Mar 02, 2020  5 years ago
Coronavirus Drug Research Updates : While clinical trials are underway in China on a variety of drugs to treat the new Covid-19 disease including the top three candidates so far which are favipiravir, remdesivri and chloroquine, medical experts and physicianss are still on a look out for newer pharmaceuticals. Preliminary research data is showing that three present candidates  are good for...
Source: Coronavirus News  Mar 02, 2020  5 years ago
Iraq Reports 2 New Cases Iraq has detected two new coronavirus patients, both of whom had recently visited Iran, the Health Ministry said on Monday, bringing its total cases to 21.   Andorra Reports Its First Case Of Coronavirus The small European country of Andorra, situated between France and Spain, has reported its first case of the coronavirus. The patient is a 20-year-old And...
Source: Coronavirus Alerts  Mar 02, 2020  5 years ago
Based on released studies from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Centre, it has been shown that most individuals irrespective of age, who have underlying health problems, are at a higher risk of dying from the Covid-19 disease that is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   It was observed that those with cardiovascular problems including those with pacemakers, prior hea...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 02, 2020  5 years ago
Thailand has reported another confirmed coronavirus infection. The patient has been identified as a 22 year old female according to a senior health official.   It was reported that she works in the same company as another confirmed infected male patient who is a driver for foreign tourists especially those from China, Dr Sukhum Kanchanaphimai, the permanent secretary of the health ministry,...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Mar 02, 2020  5 years ago
According to the Disease Control Department Head, Dr Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai from Thailand’s Ministry Of Public Health, till the 29th Of February, there were 2,953 reported suspected cases or PUIs (patients under investigations) under surveillance for possible coronavirus infections. It was revealed however that most of them had contracted influenza and about 1,752 have since been...

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