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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...
Medications-Drugs - Midazolam - Heart Injury - Chronotherapy Dec 07, 2022 2 years ago
Medications - Drugs: A study by researchers from the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado-United States has found that the usage of the sedative midazolam at night increases risk of myocardial injury and heart damage!
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Benzodiazepenes-2020_1.pdf
Midazolam, sold under the brand name Verse...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 - Visceral Adipocytes Dec 07, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of Campinas-Brazil (UNICAMP) and Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo-Brazil (USP) has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has a greater affinity for visceral adipocytes compared to subcutaneous adipocytes, replicating faster and causing higher viral loads which in turn increases the various inflammatory triggers...
Medical News - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Dec 06, 2022 2 years ago
A new study by researchers rom Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg-Germany, HHV-6 Foundation-United States and the Ohio State University-United States has found that reactivation of dormant HHV-6 and EBV viruses is associated with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
The study findings also have implications in the aspect that many Long -COVID-19 patients...
U.S. Medical News - Cardiovascular Excess Deaths During COVID-19 Pandemic Dec 06, 2022 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: While many governments and health authorities around the world are trying to conceal the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and also its future impacts, it is becoming more apparently day by day what the debut of this new novel coronavirus is doing in terms of its ability to decrease the global population and also cause a major health crisis in the future in with regards to th...
COVID-19 News - Disease Severity Among Children In Japan Dec 05, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Japanese researchers are warning that the current SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages circulating in the country are causing more disease severity in children with many even going through cardiac arrest!
Besides disease severity and cardiac issues, many are also acute encephalopathy.
A large proportion of infected children are ending up in the ICU wards with many mo...
COVID-19 News - Glasses Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection Dec 05, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A randomized clinical study led by researchers from Norway showed that wearing glasses reduces risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 infections, although very minutely.
The study comprised of researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health - Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University - Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health - Norway, University Hospital Basel -...
COVID-19 News - Brain Aging In Adolescents Dec 05, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: New worrying study findings show that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is causing the brains of adolescents to age rapidly!
The study was conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychology, Stanford University-USA.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant stress and disruption for young individuals, likely leading to alterations in their mental healt...
COVID-19 News - Immunologists Superspreader Event Dec 05, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The online medical community is in a state of frenzy after various participants attending an unmasked Immunology Conference in Melbourne starting testing positive for COVID-19 and many developing a wide array of symptoms.
Despite the seriousness of the matter as many lives are at stake, it is still hilarious and ironical when we see that many prominent immunologists from ar...
COVID-19 News - New Onset Diabetes In Long COVID Dec 04, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A prominent and distinguished Long COVID researcher, Dr Ziyad Al-Aly from the Clinical Epidemiology Center, VA Saint Louis Health Care System, Missouri-USA and also the Institute for Public Health, Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri-USA has warned that otherwise previously health individuals, irrespective if they were vaccinated or unvaccinated with the various COVID-19 ...
COVID-19 News - Immunity Debt versus COVID-19 Induced Immunodeficiency Dec 04, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Off late, there is much talk online about so called “Immunity Debt” leading to primarily children and also some adults contracting other pathogenic infections especially respiratory viral illnesses like influenza, RSV, Adenovirus and even other disease like measles, chicken pox etc.
The charlatans behind the concept of “Immunity Debt” claim lockdowns...
COVID-19 News - Infections and Hospitalizations Rising Dec 03, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: While the Western governments and their paid mainstream media are more concerned about meddling in China’s Zero COVID policies and instigating mobs and protests among the stupids in the country, COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are rising in their own countries along with a whole string of other pathogenic infections including RSV infections Adenovirus infections, Infl...
Health News - Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) Outbreak In Canada Dec 03, 2022 2 years ago
Health News: Island Health also known as the Vancouver Island Health Authority, ie the publicly funded health care provider in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia has issued a warning about the outbreak of Haemophilus Influenza Type B (Hib) Disease in parts of Canada.
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/mho/newsletter/mho-newsletter-hib-outbreak.pdf
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Medical News - Strep A Outbreak In UK Dec 03, 2022 2 years ago
While COVID-19 Infections, Influenza and also RSV infections are plaguing the United Kingdom and children this time are the ones being badly infected, another worrying disease outbreak has been reported in the country.
British health officials issued a warning in the last 24 hours about the outbreak of a more serious Group A strep-related illness among children and youngsters after six ch...
COVID-19 News - New BA.5.7 and BM.2 Sub-lineages in Australia Dec 02, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: According to the latest United Kingdom technical briefing on SARS-CoV-2 variants, an international alert has been raised about the identification of new BA.5.7 and BM.2 sub-lineages spotting a variety of mutations!
According to the report, concerns were raised on a cluster of BA.5.7 sequences from Australia, due to more nucleotide synonymous transition mutations (purine to ...
Herbal Medicine - Green Tea - EGCG Dec 02, 2022 2 years ago
Herbal Medicine: There is a common fallacy that herbs and traditional medicine involving only plants and phytochemicals are basically harmless and safe and hence one should not worry about consuming them. In reality, many herbs and phytochemicals if used wrongly can actually not only exacerbate conditions that they are used to treat but also give rise to other medical conditions and in some cases ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Dec 02, 2022 2 years ago
COVID News: A new study conducted by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York - USA has found SARS-CoV-2 viral presence in the lung up to 359 days after acute phase of disease, even in patients with negative nasopharyngeal swab tests!
The study findings validate that SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence is a major health issues that needs to be addressed immediately as it is not only a c...
HIV News -Long Lasting PrEP Injectables Dec 01, 2022 2 years ago
HIV News: A new injectable PrEP to combat HIV infections and can last for two months has entered the market but unfortunately the cost of the drug was deliberately aimed at HISO sluts and upmarket prostitutes as it cost about US$3,800 per dose or over US$22,000 per person per year in the United States!
The new injectable PrEP called CAB-LA or cabotegravir-long acting was developed and pat...
COVID-19 News - Bebtelovimab Dec 01, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The U.S. FDA issued an announcement in the last 24 hours stating that Bebtelovimab is not currently authorized in any U.S. region to treat COVID-19.
According to the announcement, the predominant variants in circulation that includes the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants ad sub-lineages can no longer be neutralized by the monoclonal antibody drug Bebtelovimab that is made by ph...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Binds With Estrogen Receptors Dec 01, 2022 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study funded by the U.S. NIH has found that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus also binds to estrogen receptors (Erα and Erβ) and modulates them. The study findings suggest that, given the role of ERα in the coagulation cascade, S-protein could increase the pro-coagulation activity of endothelial cells leading to an enhanced risk of thrombosis.
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