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Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
Gilead’s second batch of antiviral drug, Remdesivir which was dispatched through FedEx has arrived in Wuhan to be used for two ongoing clinical trials against the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus that that has so far killed more than 1,670 people as a result of the Covid-19 disease that it causes.
The experimental drug is to be tested on a total of 760 patients. A total of 5000 drug doses and ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
China’s health authorities this morning (Sunday,16th February) announced that there were 139 new deaths due to the coronavirus in Hubei within the last 24 hours bringing the total death toll to 1,666. The number of individuals confirmed infected with the coronavirus is 69,061 while there are more than 11,053 patients in severe critical condition. (note that all these figures are as claimed b...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 16, 2020 5 years ago
(PLEASE WATCH VIDEO BELOW OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S DIRECTOR GENERAL ADDRESSING THE BRIEFING)
During the last 6 days, certain country leaders have been downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus epidemic despite increasing death tolls and infected cases.
When a leading Chinese researcher, Dr Zeng Qun,who is the deputy head of the Shanghai Civil Affai...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), China is currently running more than 82 clinical trials for treatment of the new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) that causes the Covid-19 disease.
Michael Ryan, director of the WHO's Emergencies Programmes spoke during the Munich Security Conference, calling on nations around the world to work with Beijing to fight the coronavirus.
He ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
French Health Minister Agnes Buzynhas announced this afternoon (Saturday 15th February) that one of the 11 patients that was detected with the coronavirus in France has died.
The patient was described as an elderly Chinese tourist and marks Europe’s first fatality.
Meanwhile cases of coronavirus infections continue to rise among passengers onboard the quarantined cruise ship ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
Thailand coronavirus situation seemingly is well under control as despite having arrivals of more than 1 million Chinese travellers during the months of December 2019 and January 2020 with a fair proportion of it being from Wuhan city and Hubei city, the total number of detected cases of individuals infected with the new coronavirus has only been 34 to date and also most have already recovered and...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM is now being deployed by China to help fight the coronavirus threat according to a press conference this morning at Hubei organized by China health officials.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) experts at a hospital in
Binzhou, Shandong province, China.Photo credit : REUTERS
It was revealed during the press conference by a top Chinese health...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
World leading epidemiology expert, Harvard University’s Professor Dr Marc Lipsitch and his team had earlier published a study that reported about the possibility of the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia having missed cases of coronavirus infected individuals. The report was meant to create awareness of the possibility of not detecting certain types of coronavirus spread t...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
China’s State Councillor Wang Yi, who also serves as China’s foreign minister, said China has taken the most rigorous and decisive measures to fight the coronavirus epidemic, with many efforts going beyond international health regulations and World Health Organisation (WHO)recommendations. “Through our efforts the epidemic is overall under control,” he said.
H...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 15, 2020 5 years ago
Virology experts are warning that certain Western countries that are assuming the Covid-19 coronavirus will not be able to withstand warmer weathers as seasons change are bracing themselves for complacency that can have disastrous results.
Furthermore, there are no scientific studies or backing so far that the new coronavirus is affected by higher weather temperatures.
Singap...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
According to a new research lead by Swedish researchers from the Umeå University in Sweden along with collaboration with researchers from Heidelberg in Germany and Zhangzhou in China, the coronavirus probably has a stronger ability to spread than the World Health Organization has estimated so far.
The researchers conducted a detailed analysis and review of previous studies of the co...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
Singapore health authorities reported nine more cases of confirmed coronavirus infections, bringing the total to 67, the second highest out of China, besides Japan. But what is of concern it that there seems to be new cases each day and most are via human and human transmissions involving people who have never been to China the last three months, and also individuals who were never in contac...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
China announced publicly that more than 1,700 medical workers on the frontlines of China’s battle against Covid-19 coronavirus have fallen ill from the disease, with almost 90% of those in the epicenter of Hubei.
Of these, six have died including 4 doctors and 2 nurses. In addition, 582 of these medical workers who are infected are currently in critical condition battling for t...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has publicly announced that the deadly outbreak of coronavirus could continue into next year.
Captain Jennifer McQuiston of the CDC a media briefing. "There may be additional massive cases that we identify. I do want to prepare you for that,"
Captain McQuiston is overseeing the quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas ...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
I have to admit that there is so much garbage spewing online about the coronavirus, from so call non-qualified, non-medical rumour mongers ranging from conspiracy theories, releasing non-scientific information about the virus to flogging ‘snake-oil’ therapies and meds that can claim to be able treat and prevent the coronavirus. Some even just to cause panic or to increase their viewers...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
Many healthcare professionals are pinning their hopes on Gilead’s antiviral drug, Remdesivir in the battle against the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus which is fast spreading globally and already doing extensive damage in China.
While a few clinical studies are underway in China, the results from another new study has shown that it is also effective against the MERS coronavirus, sparkin...
Source ; Thailand Medical News Feb 14, 2020 5 years ago
China Health authorities this morning reported the death toll from the coronavirus as being at 1,487, confirmed infected cases at 65,487 and those in severe critical condition at 10,620.
Chinese doctors are saying that the numbers of patients progressing into severe critical stages is fast accelerating and also causing a big stress on the medical infrastructure with shortages of med...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
Japanese health authorities announced on Thursday the first death in the country from the new coronavirus.
Katsunobu Kato, Health Minister said at a media conference that a woman in her 80s who lived in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, had died that day. She was not one of the passengers from the cruise ship that is currently docked at Yokohama.
She is the third person to...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
The covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has shown that viruses are a constant threat to humanity. We have been through Ebola, Zika, SARS and MERS episodes but have yet to build up an arsenal of drugs and vaccines that can have a broad-spectrum effect on viruses from specific classes or families.
Though vaccines are regularly developed and deployed against specific viruses, the process takes a lot of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus preparedness, despite cynicisms with regards to the low reported numbers of infected cases so far and the fact that there is still a mask shortage in many places, is still receiving praise from many that understands the critical factors involved in doing such a rating. A few international doctors who were in Bangkok and Chiangmai recently for an heart symposi...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
Vietnam Government and health authorities have place under lockdown a farming region that comprised numerous villages with a population of more than 12,000 people as a result of a six cases of the deadly coronavirus emerging there. All six tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus and it is suspected that hundreds could have already been infected.
The authorities locking down efforts of the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
A leading biotech company in UK, the Native Antigen Company yesterday announced the commercial introduction of its lab synthesized Covid-19 coronavirus antigens, derived from the emerging Wuhan coronavirus strain.
The synthesized recombinant proteins offer scientists high-quality reagents to support ongoing infectious disease research, and the development of diagnostics and vaccines...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and who is also a senior official disclosed that said a huge number of coronavirus test kits sent out by US health authorities to labs across the country to diagnose the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus are faulty.
Accordingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began shippin...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
The WHO’s delegation team that has been in Beijing since Sunday has yet to make any comments or reports about conditions with regards to the coronavirus epidemic in China despite being there for a few days now.
They are still in Beijing and it is doubted if they would even get access to ground zero at Wuhan observe firsthand the disastrous effects of the coronavirus there.
To...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
WHO and CDC Officials are warning countries not be complacent by China’s statements about the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic peaking as countries elsewhere could see massive epidemic outbreaks in their own countries.
Overcrowded Hospital In Zhejiang Province
China reported almost 15,000 new coronavirus infected cases in a single day, claiming that they have adjusted their scree...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
The situation contrary to Chinese government and media saying that it the coronavirus epidemic peaking is far from over. In fact it is just starting as studies are emerging that the Covid-19 coronavirus is mutating and becoming more virulent coupled with the fact that it is spreading undetectably as a far rapid rate.
China itself witnessed a massive jump in the last 24 hours, with thousan...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 13, 2020 5 years ago
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered via a new research as to why viruses that originate from bats such as the SARS, MERS and now Covid-19 coronaviruses, are all often deadly in humans. The study reveals that due to the bats' extremely strong immune response to viruses, it drives viruses to replicate faster, and when these viruses jump to mammals with ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
Though the number of confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus have continued to surge inside China, sickening tens of thousands, with a death toll of more than 1,120, China realizing the economic fallout from the coronavirus, started an intense PR campaign to show that the disease is peaking and that infections rates are going down. It started with a media event, getting a 83 year old...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
In the midst of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic a couple of innovative bio engineers and medical doctors from the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into any smartphone, connecting it automatically to a doctor’s office through a custom app they developed.
University of Cincinnati engineering professor Chong Ahn, left, and graduate student Sthitodhi Ghosh...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
Despite the PR machines in China working overtime with new stories such as the number of coronavirus infected cases slowing down and showing staged footage of patients and medical staff dancing! on local TV networks, the actual ground scenes paints a much more grim outlook.
It has now been reported that just in Hubei alone, there are more than 7,350 patients that are in critical stage bat...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
News has emerged that WHO’s team of medical experts that were sent on a mission to China since the 10th of February are holed up in Beijing at Health Authorities Offices and are merely given coordinated briefings and presentations but have not been allowed to the street levels or have yet to granted permission to travel to ground zero at Wuhan. As of this time, it is not even known if such a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
In the initial stages of the coronavirus outbreak, (peruse press coverages and media statements issued in the period 8th of January to 19th January 2020) numerous health officials and government authorities in an attempt to downplay the situation and panic said that human-to human transmissions were not possible. (they said that it was only via animal to human transmission) By the late...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in China continues to ravage the country and is spreading globally. To date 1115 people have died and almost 45,000 infected with more than 7740 in a severe critical condition. As these figures are expected to rise drastically, medical researchers around the world are racing to find a treatment. Most of the individuals infected with the new coronavirus have not re...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
China health authorities this morning announced that the death toll from the Covid-19 coronavirus is now 1112 while the number of confirmed infected cases have risen to 44,792. Disturbingly, the number in critical condition has risen to 7358 with almost all in serious ICU conditions and literally fighting for their lives.
Despite PR stunts by China in which a 83 year old epidemiologists address...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 12, 2020 5 years ago
The World Health Organization, announced on Tuesday that "Covid-19" will be the official name of the deadly coronavirus from China, saying the disease represented a "very grave threat" for the world but there was a "realistic chance" of stopping it.
Covid-1...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Despite a recent PR stunt by China by using an 83 year old epidemiologist, Dr Zhong Nanshan, to say that the coronavirus might peak by middle or late February and even disappear By April, many other Chinese doctors and researchers are saying that this is very unlikely and that the situation is going to get much worse and prolonged.
Despite winning fame for combating the SARS epidemi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Thailand reported one more case of the coronavirus infection today, bring the country’s total to only 33 infected cases so far.
The infected patient is a 54-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan who was put in quarantine after coming into contact with another Chinese virus patient while in Thailand, said Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai, the director-general of the Department of Disease...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Since the breakout of the coronavirus, the public first had to deal with constant misinformation and fake news from ignorant and non-medical illiterates and rumour-mongers.
Then we also had to deal with misinformation from so called medical experts and even certain health organizations and governments that are being supported by a few social media platforms.
It would have been bett...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Taiwan authorities as of 30 minutes ago has raised its travel warnings for several regions in Asia that have been affected by the 2019nCoV coronavirus.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said that the warnings are as follows:
Hong Kong and Macao: Taiwan has raised the travel alerts for the two semi-autonomous Chinese cities to level three, which urges the public not to travel t...
Source : Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Recently with thermal scanners everywhere from shopping centres to shopping malls, schools and office building and even at some prestigious massage parlours in Thailand!, many locals and even foreigners are paranoid about their body temperature. The coronavirus fear have in fact created a ‘social fever’ of its own.
Already with most of Thailand especially Bangkok being hot and humid...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
News has emerged that Thailand’s Public Health Minister cum Deputy Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul has banned a cruise liner with suspected cases of coronavirus from docking into Thailand’s Laem Chabang port. The cruise ship called Westerdam is a Holland-American ship carrying a total of about 2,800 people onboard including 800 crew members. The ship had previously been denie...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
A new medical and clinical study on the coronavirus based on data gathered from more than 1,000 coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China revealed that the incubation period for the coronavirus was as long as 24 days rather than the previously believed 14 days, and also significantly, fewer than half of the patients showed fever symptoms when they first saw doctors.
The new research study prod...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
A California based molecular diagnostics company has announced that it has developed a new test kit for the new 2019-nCoV coronavirus that can provide results in less than 30 minutes.
Cepheid, a leading biotech and molecular diagnostics company announced that in response to the rapid outbreak of a new coronavirus strain, the company has developed an automated molecular test for the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 11, 2020 5 years ago
Chinese Health authorities on Tuesday morning reported that for Hubei province alone, there were 2,097 new cases of infection and 103 new deaths due to the coronavirus.
The Hubei provincial health commission had confirmed a total of 31,728 cases with 974 deaths by the end of Monday, indicating a fatality rate of 3.07%. for just Hubei alone.
It said there were still a total of 16,68...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
India which is among many countries that have restricted all travel to and from China and has also been screening passengers from Hong Kong and now decided to include all passengers from to Thailand and also Singapore.
As the coronavirus spread in on the increase in China and now globally, India has decided to take all necessary safeguards to protect its country as a coronavirus epi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
China health authorities have reported that so far about 3,466 individuals have recovered from the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Certain other countries that had cases of infected individuals have also said the same that some of its patients have recovered?
Can the medical community explain what is meant by recovered or cured with regards to the coronavirus?
To date, even the current diag...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infections worldwide is now 443 spanning 29 countries. But what is disturbing is that there are now more than 22,130 suspected cases spanning more than 102 countries that are pending testing or awaiting test results according to collated data from health authorities worldwide.
Japan leads with 156 cases, majority (almost 130 cases) from the cru...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
The China’s agriculture ministry has officially announced that the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of avian flu has emerged in a various farms throughout the province Sichuan over the weekend.
This is the first time that the H5N6 avian flu strain has been detected in poultry farm for this year in China though in the past it was detected in Swans and there were also fatal cases o...
Source:Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
The last 4 weeks has been a stressful and scary time for many with news about the coronavirus outbreak and daily death tolls and also numbers infected that rising day by day.
The online and print publications has been full of misinformation and fake news even from so called Health organizations that have enrolled the help of social media platforms to only promote their own agenda.
&...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
The following article was based on observations by Chinese doctors and researchers at ground level in China coupled with data available from published research studies about the coronavirus. It is subject to contention and also changes as many variables about the new coronavirus is still unknown and gradually coming to light.
According to Chinese doctors in Wuhan, a person can initially c...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 10, 2020 5 years ago
Chinese health authorities announced this morning that the death toll from the coronavirus is now 908 while the numbers confirmed infected are 40553 and those in critical condition are about 3,732.
Officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a facemask who
collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan.Image Credit: AFP
Despite media announcements by the Chin...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 5 years ago
The only optimism so far with regards to the coronavirus situation is coming from WHO officials and that too has been based on data supplied to them from China health officials.
Many medical researchers in Europe and US along with Chinese researchers on the ground and new data supplied by Tech Giant Baidu tells a different story that correlates with everything that is actually happening a...
Source:Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 5 years ago
Scottish Medical researchers from the University of Edinburgh are warning all clinicians that steroids should be avoided in the treatment of the current novel coronavirus.
Steroids are often administered to alleviate certain conditions in respiratory diseases.
A new report published in The Lancet journal concludes that, based on evidence from previous outbreaks of similar types of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 5 years ago
Despite WHO’s optimism that the virus seems to be stabilizing in China, there seems to be imminent danger that new coronavirus epicenters will emerge in other parts of the world as what is happening in China at the moment with newer cities fighting the battle in provinces like Chongqing, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Henan and Hunan despite being downplayed by Chinese authorities.
Singapore is now t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Feb 09, 2020 5 years ago
New research is emerging that the new coronavirus, 2019-nCov is also able to be transmitted through the eyes.
The repost published in the Lancet, a prestigious and per-reviewed medical journal, warned that there is also ample evidence to prove that the coronavirus is able to spread through the eyes and that it was also a route that caused many new infections.
The report cited as an...