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Zika Virus News - Mutating Mar 01, 2023 2 years ago
Zika Virus News: While we are awaiting confirmation from the Thai authorities if there is indeed a Zika virus crisis slowly unfolding in the country after Hungarian heath officials reported that two of its citizens contracted the Zika virus after visiting Thailand, new studies are emerging that the Zika virus is indeed mutating as a rapid rate!
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-zika-v...
Zika Virus News: Health authorities from Hungary have reported that two Hungarian nationals returning from Thailand tested positive for the Zika virus!
https://www.nnk.gov.hu/index.php/nnk-hirek/1891-ket-thaifoldon-jart-szemelynel-igazolt-tropusi-szunyogcsipessel-terjedo-zika-virus-fertozest-a-nemzeti-nepegeszsegugyi-kozpont
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/health/public-health-centre-two-cases-of-zi...
SARS-CoV-2 And Cancer: Researchers are warning that as a result of increased neuropilin-1 (NRP1) expression due to COVID-19 infections, besides various neurological issues arising…the increase of the NRP-1 proteins can also lead to progression of primary brain tumors!
Past studies have already demonstrated that an increase in NRP1 expression leads to the progression of pediatric br...
COVID-19 News - Overactive Bladder (OAB) Feb 27, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the Department of Urology, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, Michigan-USA has found that individuals with prior SARS-CoV-2 infections tend to develop incidence of new or worsening overactive bladder!
Thailand Medical News in our previous COVID-19 News coverages had already covered that ...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Houseflies and Mosquitoes Feb 27, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: While current safety guidelines issued by the WHO and U.S. CDC are warning that people should not directly touch any dead wild birds, chickens or any other animals as a result of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that is currently circulating around in many countries, many are unaware that houseflies and other insects such as mosquitoes, blow flies and beetles can also act as vectors f...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Reassortant Strain Feb 27, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Forget about the more than 20 sub-lineages of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant that is predominant in many geolocations across the world as they are unlikely to drive disease severity except those in the vulnerable groups or about the rather isolated incident of a girl dying from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus in Cambodia, rather researchers are warning us that we should be more concerned...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Below are summaries of latest about the H5N1 Avian Flu Threat.
Genome Sequencing Reveals That H5N1 Virus Found In Cambodia Belongs To Clade 2.3.2.1c.
It has been reported that genome sequencing of the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that killed a Cambodian girl and infected a few others belonged to the 2.3.2.1c. Clade that has been endemic in South-east Asia for the last ...
COVID-19 News -SARS-CoV-2 - Cervix Cancer Feb 26, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: German scientists are warning that SARS-CoV-2 infections can possibly lead to rapid progression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia to cervix cancers as a result of a dysregulated immune system! It is now being highly recommended that women who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus to have regular health screenings especially for possible cervical issues.
The study te...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Disrupts Signaling In Acetylcholine System Feb 25, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Maikop State Technological University, Republic of Adygeya-Russia and Adyghe State University-Russia in a new study have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause disruptions in the signaling of the acetylcholine system (AChS) in the human host, causing cholinergic deficiency that can lead to various serious symptoms and health conditions arising especially ca...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Thailand's DDC On Bird Flu Alert Feb 25, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has issueed an alert about the H5N1 Avian Flu Disease in the last few hours following the death of an 11-year-old girl in neighboring Cambodia a few days ago from the bird flu virus.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-h5n1-avian-flu-news-11-year-old-girl-dies-from-h5n1-avian-flu-virus-in-cambodia-s-prey-veng-province
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COVID-19 News: SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Targets Selenoproteins And Glutathione Biosynthesis Feb 25, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Latest SARS-CoV-2 research conducted by scientist from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of North Carolina Greensboro-USA has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) targets the human host selenoproteins and glutathione biosynthesis for knockdown via proteolysis, potentially disrupting the thioredoxin and glutaredoxin redox cycles.
The s...
Pharma News - Sandoz Dicillin Feb 24, 2023 2 years ago
Pharma News: The Danish Medicines Agency has initiated a recall of Sandoz’s Dicillin antibiotics after it was discovered that the drugs were contaminated and lead to users developing an infection involving Carbapenemase-Producing ST79 Enterobacter Hormaechei.
https://laegemiddelstyrelsen.dk/da/nyheder/2023/antibiotikalaegemidlet-dicillin-fra-firmaet-sandoz-tilbagekaldes/
The recall ...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Cambodia Find 12 More Cases Feb 24, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia health authorities announced to the media in the last few hours that 12 more individuals have been infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus but are pending laboratory diagnostics results.
At the same time another 37 individuals who have been suspected of having also contracted the virus are also being quarantined pending further investigations.
All the i...
COVID-19 News: Authorities and governments around the world are not only relaxing all COVID-19 measures and safety protocols but are also going with the constant narrative that theCOVID-19 disease is now endemic and that we have to learn to live with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Does living with the virus means roughly about 340 to 400 Americans dying a week (Actual figures could be much higher!...
H5N1 Avian Flu News - Girl Dies In Cambodia Feb 23, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 Avian Flu News: Cambodia’s Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department in the last few hours announced that a 11-year-old girl from the village of Roleang in Cambodia's southeast province of Prey Veng had died of H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
According to Cambodian health authorities, the girl fell ill on 16th February 2023 with the symptoms of a high temperatu...
COVID-19 News - Reactivation Of Herpesviridae Viruses Feb 23, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new meta-analysis study involving the review of various published studies and case reports by researchers from Miguel Servet University Hospital, IIS Aragón-Spain has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccinations trigger reactivation of all kinds of herpesviridae viruses! While it has already been known that COVID-19 and the related shots could trigger Herpes...
Long COVID News - Neuropathic Pain Feb 22, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: A study by researcher from University of Sheffield-UK, University of Cyprus-Cyprus and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece has found that the prevalence of neuropathic pain among Long COVID individuals is about 34.3 percent!
To date, it has already been established that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that is responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, may impact other...
COVID-19 News - Untreated COVID-19 Feb 22, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,Massachusetts-USA and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health-Massachusetts-USA involving a randomized clinical trial has surprisingly found that untreated COVID-19 infected individuals tend to fair better than those treated with Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir–ritonavir) in terms...
COVID-19 News -Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome - SCLS Feb 21, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Scientist are warning that many Post COVID and Post vaccinated individuals could be prone to a serious condition known as Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome (SCLS).
Systemic capillary leak syndrome happens when fluid leaks from your small blood vessels into surrounding tissues. It requires immediate treatment to prevent a drop in blood pressure and other serious complica...
COVID-19 News - Viral Persistence Feb 21, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 pandemic one of the worst managed health catastrophes in the history of mankind and mostly because of the early medial responses and medical procedures initiated by two of the most unethical and filthy countries in the world ie China and the United States along with the WHO lead by a black Ethiopian! Sadly, the approach to treating and managing the COVID-19 disease incl...
Marburg Virus Outbreak - Real? Feb 20, 2023 2 years ago
Marburg Virus Outbreak: There are now lots of questions arising about the claimed Marburg Virus outbreak in Africa starting with the initial cases that were reported in Equatorial Guinea. The story was only released only by Reuters and that too initially to all news networks associated with the BBC’s trusted News Network of which Reuters is a key member!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/altern...
The technique for identifying and assessing NASH and fibrosis that has received the most widespread recognition to date is a liver biopsy. Unfortunately, it is an invasive technique, and it has poor uniformity, observer bias, and risk of complications. Therefore, recent research has concentrated on investigating non-invasive testing for fibrosis, NAFLD, and NASH for clinical applications.
R...
COVID-19 News - BA.5 Sub-lineages More Immune Evasive Feb 20, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Despite claims by certain European/American virologist and variant trackers that the BA.2 variant and its sub-lineages are more immune evasive, researchers from the Netherlands in a new study have found that the BA.4/BA.5 variants and sub-lineages are more immune evasive and are able to easily cause breakthrough infections in those with prior exposure to the Omicron BA.1 variant.
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Measles News: Measles the disease caused by the enveloped RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae is expected to cause numerous outbreaks globally in 2023 due to a few factors:
1)The SARS-CoV-2 virus that has infected almost two thirds of the global population and is still reinfecting many in constant onslaughts has not caused immune d...
Medical News - Norovirus Infections Rising Feb 19, 2023 2 years ago
The U.S CDC has issues warnings that norovirus infections are rising across the United States and urged people to take more safety precautions including frequent washing of hands, proper handling of foods, etc.
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/norovirus/natl-trend.html
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Norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. The resulting h...
COVID-19 News - Natural Killer Cells Feb 19, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study lead by researchers from The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to impair natural killer cell functions.
The study showed that a glyco-immune checkpoint, Siglec-9 restrains antibody-dependent natural killer cell cytotoxicity against SARS-CoV-2.
The cytotoxic potential of NK cells is determined by t...
COVID-19 News - NSP5 - MHC II - HDAC2 Feb 19, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Western Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Centre, The University of Western Ontario-Canada and the Robarts Research Institute, Ontario-Canada have in a new study found that the SARS-CoV-2 non-structural protein 5 (NSp5) prevents and delays viral clearance in the infected by antagonizing the MHC II antigen present...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 - Thymus - T cells Feb 18, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Italian researchers has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to infect the thymus and impair T cell generation that can lead to disease severity.
The fact that the SARS-CoV-2 can infect the thymus also leads to the possibility of long-term immune dysfunction or immunodeficiency issues!
Already in our past COVID-19 News coverages, we did cover studie...
COVID-19-News -SARS-CoV-2 Causes Cardiac Fibrosis Feb 18, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: It is already known that exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus via infections or to its spike proteins via ‘prophylactic shots’ can induce a variety of cardio and vascular issues. To date, three years into the COVID-19 pandemic the death rates from heart failures are rising exponentially due to a SARS-CoV-2 induced myocarditis, pericarditis, arrythmia, hypoxic injury, stress ...
Long COVID News : Microvasculature Alterations Feb 17, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: News: A new German study has found that capillary alterations, distinct transcriptomic signatures in skeletal muscle and macrophage infiltration are features of Long COVID!
The German study team was led by researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health and al...
Long COVID-19 News - T Cell Dysregulation - Dysfunctional Immune Response Feb 17, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study by researchers from University of California, San Francisco-USA and Ulm University Medical Center-Germany has found that Long COVID typically manifest T cell dysregulation, inflammation and a dysfunctional adaptive immune response to persistent SARS-CoV-2!
According to their study abstract,” Long COVID (LC), a type of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in...
Long COVID News - Aortic and Arterial Stiffness Feb 16, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study by researchers from University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Victor Babes” Timisoara-Romania, County Emergency Hospital “Pius Brinzeu”- Romania and the Academy of Romanian Scientists have found that many Post COVID and Long COVID individuals are likely to manifest aortic and arterial stiffness and also diastolic dysfunction.
The study findi...
COVID-19 News : Damaged Liver Functions Up To 20 Months Feb 16, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A study by researchers from the State University of Pará, (UEPA)-Brazil and São Paulo University-Brazil has shown that liver function in patients up to 20 Months of Long COVID still manifest abnormalities indicating liver injury.
To date, the long-term laboratory aspects of the effects of COVID-19 on liver function are still not well understood.
The stu...
Marburg Virus News: The Marburg virus crisis is now escalating from the initial outbreak that was reported two days in Kie-Ntem province of Equatorial Guinea as the outbreak is now spreading to neighboring countries in the African continent.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-news-who-convenes-emergency-meeting-after-marburg-virus-outbreak-confirmed-in-equatorial-guinea-with-9-dead-and...
SARS-CoV-2 Research -Gibbs Energy -BA.5.2 - BF.7 Feb 15, 2023 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: While the old school of virologist (some are young too but have a very backward mentality!) are only looking at the mutations on the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 sub-lineages and recombinant variants to roughly predict their viral fitness, immune evasiveness, infectivity, transmissibility along with certain aspects of pathogenicity, they have completely failed to also assess the ...
Long COVID News - Organ Damage Feb 15, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: More great news emerging especially for COVID minimizers and morons that insist that COVID-19 is similar to flu.
A new study by researchers from the United Kingdom has found that 59% of Long COVID patients experience organ damage up to one year after the onset of the disease!
The study consisted of medical researchers from:
-University of Liverpool, Liverpool
-Hull...
COVID-19 News - B Cell Lymphocytosis - as chronic lymphocytic leukemia Feb 14, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from University of Genoa-Italy, S. Paolo Hospital, Savona-Italy, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini-Italy, Santa Corona Hospital, Pietra Ligure-Italy and IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino-Italy have in a news study found that a sub-group of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can end up with CD5+ B Cell Lymphocytosis that can end up as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, altho...
Marburg Virus News - Prophylactics-Drugs-Therapeutics-Herbs-Phytochemicals Feb 14, 2023 2 years ago
Marburg Virus: With the announcement by WHO of a Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea which is located in Central Africa that started just last week but has already left 9 dead and hundreds more possibly infected and with suspicions that the Marburg Virus has already spread to neighboring country Gabon, there is a dire need for researchers to start finding potential prophylactic and therape...
Marburg Virus Outbreak - Equatorial Guinea Feb 14, 2023 2 years ago
Marburg Virus: The WHO has convened an emergency meeting for today (14th February 2023) after it was declared in the last 24 hours by health authorities in Equatorial Guinea that a Marburg virus outbreak has been declared in the small country in the West Coast of Centra Africa.
As of the last hour, 9 people have died from the disease, 27 are in ICU due to hemorrhagic fever with another 27...
COVID-19 News - Gemfibrozil & Lovastatin, Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Neuroinfection Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by South Korean researchers from Chonnam National University, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology along with scientist from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasiveness and neuroinfection is governed by cholesterol homeostasis and translational machinery-associated genes! The study team found that brain corticoge...
Supplement News - Fake Supplements Sold Online Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
Supplement News: Thai and foreign consumers should beware about ordering supplements or nutraceutical products online from various platforms as almost 95 percent of them are fakes!
While many are bearing American brands with exact replica of packaging and details, the contents are basically fake and are actually originating from China or Vietnam!
Most of the online platforms includ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 - Nsp16- IFIT1- IFIT3 Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas-USA, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland-USA and University of California, San Diego, California-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus uses its nonstructural protein 16 (Nsp16) to evade immunity restrictions by the antiviral proteins: Interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide re...
COVID-19 News - OAS Genes - MIS-C Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new international study led by researchers from the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York-USA HAS found Inborn errors of OAS–RNase L gene to be the cause behind SARS-CoV-2–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
This is not the first time that human OAS gene varian...
COVID-19 Research - Nsp15 Inhibits Type 1 Interferon Production. Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new research by scientists from Jiangsu University-China has found that the Nsp15 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus suppresses Type I Interferon production by inhibiting IRF3 phosphorylation and nuclear translocation.
Structure Of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a single positive-stranded RNA virus in the family Coronaviridae, genus Betacoronavirus. Th...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Modulates Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) Transcriptome Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Italian researchers from the Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari,Italy and the Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy has found that that SARS-CoV-2 modulates Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) transcriptome during infection and even allows allows discrimin...
Outbreak News: International Experts, epidemiologists and scientist need to keep a close watch on the current developments taking place in Peru as reports show that there is a major health crisis brewing in the country with a population of 33.7 million people but with a very primitive public health infrastructure.
Monkeypox Crisis
Reports have already emerged that monkeypox or Mpox infect...
Zinc Supplements - Copper Deficiency -MDS -COVID-19 Feb 11, 2023 2 years ago
Zinc Supplements: Researchers from Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia-USA and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia-USA are warning that many are manifesting health conditions resembling myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and at times are even misdiagnosed by physicians when it reality it is actually copper deficiency caused by zinc supplementation, especially in this COVID-19 e...
COVID-19 News - Sarcopenia Feb 11, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Department of Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery and also the Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute-Milan-Italy, have in a new study found that Sarcopenia is a common manifestation in SARS-CoV-2 infections, especially in those who were hospitalized when infected or are older.
Sarcopenia is a condi...
COVID-19 News: Zoonotic Infections In Minks Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne-Australia has surprisingly found that the evolutionary rate of the SARS-CoV-2 virus increases during zoonotic infection of farmed mink, spawning many worrisome mutations.
In order to investigate genetic signatures of adaptation to...
U.S. Medical News - VEXAS Syndrome Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Unknown to many, a mysterious disease has been growing in prevalence and affecting a number of older Americans, either killing them in the short term or shortening their lifespans. The disease known as VEXAS syndrome is a disease that causes inflammatory and hematologic (blood) manifestations.
A previous U.S. NIH and NYU study identified that mutations in the UBA1 ...
COVID-19 News: LRRC15 And SARS-CoV-2 Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: No sure who is paying the Guardian or whether some of their coverages are being paid by those controlling the COVID-19 narratives to deflect the concerns about the current COVID-19 situation and the potential threats that are brewing or to provide false hopes to the ignorant masses, but their article today that was written to make it look like some new major discovery in SARS-CoV-2 ...
Health News: In the last 18 years while managing many other medical and health websites including one that is tied to only releasing medical or scientific based press releases, I have come to realize that in may cases, the public and masses are only informed of certain important health, medical or pandemic issues much later and in many cases, critical data is often known first to a small group of ...
COVID-19 News - BA.5 Sub-lineages Feb 09, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Many variant hunters and virologist are claiming that in a matter of weeks, the various BA.5 sub-lineages such as the BEs, BFs, BQs, BWs, DFs, DJs and BA.51.s and BA.5.2s will be obsolete and that the BA.2 sub-lineages such as CH.1.1, BRs and BNs along with their newer emerging sub-lineages and also the various recombinant variants such as the XBBs, XBFs, XBJs etc along with some of...
Long COVID News: A new American study review led by researchers from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, New York-USA and Scripps Research Translational Institute, California-USA has found that suggests long COVID may last indefinitely for some individuals and mimic other ailments!
The American review contradicts earlier Israeli claims covered in various Long COVID-19 News coverages t...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: In the last two months, mainstream media has been abuzz about the H5N1 Avian flu virus that is wreaking havoc in poultry farms across the world, causing a shortage of not only poultry products but also eggs. Reports have also emerged that the H5N1 Avian flu virus is also infecting various mammals extensively and that it is only a mater of time before the virus effectively evol...