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Omicron Updates: As of 7pm, Monday Evening (Bangkok), The Omega (Omicron) or the B.1.1.529 variant has been detected in a total of 13 countries including Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
In the African continent, it has now been confirmed in Nigeria besides Botswana and South Afric...
Source: Omega (Omicron) Variant Nov 29, 2021 3 years ago
The WHO or World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement a few hours ago (Monday 29th November) that the Omega (Omicron) variant poses a “very high” global risk and could change the course of the pandemic and have severe consequences.
The WHO said that the new variant is likely to spread internationally very rapidly and that countries must start preparing for the worse as...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Scams-Favipiravir Nov 29, 2021 3 years ago
Since the beginning of the pandemic, certain countries like China and Japan were advocating the use of Favipravir (Avigan) to treat COVID-19 despite lack of evidence to show its efficacy. Surprisingly, although China was advocating its use to other countries by giving and selling stocks of the drug, it was never really endorsed in its own national guidelines for COVID-19 treatment neither was it u...
Source: Omega B.1.1.529 Variant Nov 29, 2021 3 years ago
The Omega Variant or B.1.1.529 Variant (Thailand Medical News refers to the variant as Omega and not the stupidly WHO designated name: Omicron) has to date been confirmed in Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands and recently in Canada. There are also suspected cases in at least another 17 countries now with confirmations pending upon result...
Source: COVID-19-Tuberculosis Nov 28, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19-Tuberculosis: Researchers from Necmettin Erbakan University-Turkey and the Meram Medical Faculty Hospital-Turkey are warning that based on actual clinical case studies and reports of pediatric patients in their hospital, they are witnessing cases of dormant tuberculosis being reactivated in individuals including children as a result of a COVID-19 infection.
The COVID-19 disease is...
The Omega Variant (We have decided to forego the stupid name bestowed on the B.1.1.529 by the incompetent and even more stupid entity ie the WHO, which has to date been one of the most hopeless agency from day one that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was discovered. In fact, we are still not sure why any media or anyone would be interested to listen to what these bunch of inept morons have to say! The world ...
Source: COVID-19-Diagnostics Nov 28, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19-Diagnostics: A new study by researchers from the University of Montreal-Canada has shown that measuring the amount of viral RNA in the blood is a reliable indicator of COVID-19 mortality risk.
To date, despite advances in COVID-19 management, identifying patients evolving toward death remains challenging.
In order the to identify early predictors of mortality within 60 days...
The United Kingdom in the last few hours Britain confirmed its first two cases of the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, both linked to travel from southern Africa, and expanded travel restrictions on the region.
A British government statement said, "After overnight genome sequencing, the UK Health Security Agency has confirmed that two cases of COVID-19 with mutations consistent with B....
Source: Omicron Variant Origin Nov 27, 2021 3 years ago
Speculations are going around that the highly vaccinated United Kingdom might be the source of the Omicron or B.1.1.529 variant and we need the help of investigative researchers and journalists to verify this.
Initially South African health authorities and health experts said that based on online genomic data, the Omicron strain might have originated from Botswana.
However, the Botsw...
Source: Omicron or B.1.1.529 Variant Nov 27, 2021 3 years ago
Initially in the early part of the day, a German minister in the western state of Hesse had indicated that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has probably arrived in Germany, after mutations were found in a passenger arriving from South Africa.
Kai Klose, social affairs minister in Hesse, home to Frankfurt airport, Germany's biggest hub and one of Europe's busiest airports tweeted, &q...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Nov 27, 2021 3 years ago
It was fun to see the type of reactions taking place in the last 48 hours over the identification of the Omicron or B.1.1.529 variant that has a total of 59 mutations found on it including 32 on its spike proteins.
Despite the vast number of mutations on its genome and the fact that it is still stable, there is no real need to get alarmed and panic as the reality of the situation is that m...
Source: B.1.1.529 Omicron Variant Nov 27, 2021 3 years ago
The WHO or World Health Organization has in the last few hours classified the B.1.1.529 variant as a Variant of Concern (VOC) and also renamed it as the Omicron variant.
The great news is that this highly transmissible variant that is definitely immune and vaccine evasive due to the constellation of the 32 mutations found just on its spike mutations and another 27 on the rest of its genome...
Health authorities in Belgium have confirmed that Europe’s first case of the new B.1.1.529 variant has been detected in the country.
Interestingly barely an hour after the UK health secretary, Sajid Javid had imposed new restrictions on travel from South Africa and five other nearby countries and also warned it was highly likely the new variant has spread further than ...
Source: COVID-19 Prophylactics-Therapeutics Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Prophylactics-Therapeutics: Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center-USA and Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología-Argentina have in a new study demonstrated that a combination of iota-carrageenan and xylitol inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in Vero cell culture, paving the way for the development of a prophylactic and therapeutic nasal spray for COVID-19.
Since the...
Source: Medical News - Research Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers when conducting and submitting papers for publishing with regards to potential prophylactics and therapeutics should also mention the type of strains or variants of SARS-Cov-2 used in their studies as it is now clearly emerging that different strains and variants have different characteristics and even pathogenesis modes.
Even in the case of antivirals targeting the Mpro protei...
Source: B.1.1.529 Variant Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
Preliminary research data emerging from research centres across the United States and the United Kingdom show that the B.1.1.529 variant which is likely to be designated the name Nu variant in the next few hours is 500 times more competitively infectious than the Delta variant!
The latest updates is that the new B.1.1.529 variant contains a total of 59 mutations with a total of 32 mutation...
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529 that has a total of more than 50 mutations on it including 30 on its spike proteins and was initially found in three countries ie Bostwana, South Africa and Hong Kong, has now also been found in Israel. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/great-news-a-new-horrifying-sars-cov-2-variant-b-1-1529-with-a-high-number-of-worrying-mutations-has-emerged-in-time-for-t...
Source: Thailand COVID-19 News Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
Thailand COVID-19 News: Countries not just in Europe but across the world are going into lockdowns, banning travel and closing borders not only because of surges being reported in many countries nor about the worrisome B.1.1.529 variant, AY.104 subvariant or B.1.640 variant, but rather it is generally expected that the situation is expected to get worse due to a multitude of factors including the ...
Source: Medical News - mRNA COVID Vaccines Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
A new abstract published in the peer reviewed journal of the American Heart Association (AHA) journal called Circulation warns that that mRNA COVID vaccines dramatically increase endothelial inflammatory markers and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) risk! https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
The abstract was submitted by Dr Steven R Gundry from the International Heart...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Nov 26, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen University Hospital that explored the adverse effects of SARS-CoV-2 induced antibody responses has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 induced antibody-mediated complement activation and subsequent cellular priming exacerbates COVID-19 severity!
The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus contin...
A new study by researchers from Leumit Health Services-Israel, Ariel University, Ariel-Israel, Tel Aviv University-Israel, Barzilai University Medical Centre and also involving experts from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda-USA (Why the U.S. National Cancer Institute was involved is yet another interesting aspect that we will be covering in a future article!) has found a gradual increase in ...
Source: Medical News - Anti-idiotype Antibodies Nov 25, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of California-Davis has discovered that anti-idiotype antibodies produced in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination causes a multitude of health conditions associated with Long COVID and vaccine side effects.
Anti-idiotype antibodies are antibodies that bind to the variable region of another antibody.
Anti-idiotype (or “Ab2”)...
Source: Medical News - B.1.1529 Nov 25, 2021 3 years ago
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is preparing for the year end festive season with the advent of many new emerging variants and sub-variants...its gift to stupid mankind.
A new variant, B.1.1.529 which was discovered and labelled as horrifying by Imperial College London virologist Dr Tom Peacock, has made its debut in early November in Botswana and is now spreading extensively in South Africa.
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Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 24, 2021 3 years ago
Scientists from University of Copenhagen-Denmark, Uppsala University-Sweden, Umeå University-Sweden, Karolinska Institutet-Sweden and the Institute of Cancer Research-UK have in a new study discovered a novel method of inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in human cells by blocking certain protein interactions, specifically between human G3BP1/2 proteins and SARS-CoV-2 ΦxFG Peptide Motif.
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Source: COVID-19 Prophylactics and Therapeutics Nov 24, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Prophylactics and Therapeutics: It interesting that in the initial stages of the pandemic when mouthwashes containing certain bioactive ingredients and antivirals were proposed as prophylactics or therapeutics alongside other regiments, the mention of mouthwashes for COVID-19 were immediately deemed as fake news by certain bastard journalist, fact-checkers and even so-called experts and d...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Uses Tunneling Nanotubes (TNT) Nov 24, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Institut Pasteur-France has found that SARS-CoV-2 uses tunneling nanotubes (TNT) to spread between permissive cells and non-permissive neuronal cells.
Although SARS-CoV-2 entry into host cells is mediated by the binding of its spike glycoprotein to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor which are highly expressed in several organs, these recepto...
A new study by researchers from Germany and Switzerland has found that (SARS-CoV-2) infection can directly target and cause cellular damage to the human host adrenal glands.
The researchers from Technische Universität Dresden-Germany, University of Regensburg-Germany, University Hospital Zurich-Switzerland and the University of Zurich-Switzerland found that by targeting and...
NEUROCOVID: For a while despite past studies indicating that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could infect the neurons and that was the cause of numerous neurological and also psychiatric issues arising in COVID-19 patients and also in long COVID, there was still much debate among the scientific community and the need for further concrete evidence.
A new study by researchers from the University ...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Nov 23, 2021 3 years ago
U.S. Medical News: It is official, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, (mind you this is an institution that supports the Biden administration and has been reporting a very low rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths which many believe is being manipulated!) the number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 under the Biden administration has surpassed the total for 2020,...
Source: Medical-News-Autoantobodies-Children Nov 22, 2021 3 years ago
German researchers and pediatric specialists from Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim Hospital-Germany and the Kinderkardiologie und Erwachsene Mit Angeborenen Herzfehlern Instutute-Germany have in a new study involving a case study reported that autoantibodies induced as result of COVID mRNA vaccines in children are a risk factor for Multisystem-Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
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Source: Medical News - 2022 Omega SARS-CoV-2 Strain Nov 22, 2021 3 years ago
Despite an aggressive vaccination and a booster shot programme, Israel is witnessing a small surge in COVID-19 cases again as the R number ie the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to is again nearing one. However, healthcare facilities and the country are enjoying a respite as the ravages of the fourth wave which hit the country in July is sort of contained and...
Source: European COVID-19 News Nov 22, 2021 3 years ago
It was reported by the French government on Sunday that fifth-wave coronavirus infections in France are rising at an alarming rate, with new daily COVID-19 cases close to doubling over the past week.
According to the French health authorities the seven-day average of new cases reached 17,153 on Saturday, up from 9,458 a week earlier, according to the health authorities, an increa...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Nov 21, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg-Germany has found that the IL-1ß, IL-6 and TNF-α cytokine triad is associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or Long COVID.
The study involved the detailed analysis on the first 318 DigiHero participants, 258 thereof on average eight months after mostly mild infection. Post-a...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research Nov 21, 2021 3 years ago
Two new studies released by the U.S.CDC shows that pregnant women who become infected with the delta variant are at increased risk of a stillbirth or dying during childbirth.
The studies were published on the CDC’s Online Journal: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7047e1.htm?s_cid=mm7047e1_w
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm...
Source: Medical News - Delta AY.104 sub-variant Nov 20, 2021 3 years ago
Sri Lanka health authorities in the last 36 hours have reported the emergence of a new worrisome Delta sub-variant called AY.104 that some local physicians and medical academics are saying could be even more transmissible than the AY.4.2 Delta variant and could be more virulent and immune evasive.
Already the Delta AY.4.2 variant is believed to be 10 to 15 percent more transmissible than t...
Source: Medical News-Immunodeficient Nov 20, 2021 3 years ago
Since the COVID-19 pandemic first broke in Wuhan China in late November 2019 and two years down the road, there has been more than 140 odd published studies in peer reviewed journals that shows that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a major disruption and dysregulation of the human host immune system irrespective of whether the individuals were asymptomatic or had mild, moder...
Source: Medical News - Post COVID Nov 19, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Monash University has alarmingly found that six months after recovering from COVID-19 critical illness, one in five people had died, and almost 40% of survivors had a new disability.
The study team looked at COVID-19 critical illness across Australia between March 6 and October 4, 2020, measuring mortality, new disability and return to work in individuals wh...
Source: Medical News -SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 19, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology-Sweden, Karolinska Institutet-Sweden and Karolinska University Hospital Sweden involving the precise blood proteome profiling in an undiagnosed population with COVID-19 has revealed the following circulating proteins: MBL2, MMP3, IL2RA, FCGR2A, CCL5, GP1BA, VWF, ANG, SDC4 & CHL1.
Although self-sampled blood provided ...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Nov 19, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2-Transmission: A new study by researchers from Bond University-Australia that also involved scientists from the Australian National University-Canberra has found that eye protection is also essential in curtailing SARS-CoV-2 transmission!
The study team screened 898 articles and included 6 reports of 5 observational studies from 4 countries (USA, India, Columbia, and United Kingd...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Cancer Nov 18, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2-Cancers: A new international study comprising of researchers from the University of Turin-Italy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences-Iran, University of Manitoba-Canada, Silesian University of Technology-Poland, University of Michigan-USA, Katowice School of Technology-Poland, Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine-Italy and the Candiolo Cancer Institute-Italy has alar...
Source: Germany’s COVID-19 News Nov 18, 2021 3 years ago
Germany’s COVID-19 News: Germany's disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said Thursday that 65,371 newly confirmed cases had been reported in a single day, continuing the upward trend that experts have been warning about for weeks.
The head of the agency, Lothar Wieler, has warned that the country faces a "really terrible Christmas" unless steps a...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2-Gastrointestinal Issues Nov 18, 2021 3 years ago
Contrary to the fallacy that most idiots and ignorant experts claim that those who were COVID-19 asymptomatic have nothing to worry about, in reality the fact that the virus is able to disrupt the host immune systen such that no symptoms appear while the virus is still persistent in some deeper tissues or hard to reach organs for normal existing diagnostic platforms is actually worrisome.
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Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2-NEMO Nov 17, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from Stanford University along with scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Kentucky, Chapman University School of Pharmacy-Irvine, University of Tennessee Knoxville and the US Department of Energy have in a new study uncovered yet another manner in which the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus suppresses the human host immune system, this time via the virus proteases cle...
Source: U.S. Medical News Nov 17, 2021 3 years ago
U.S. Medical News: While many Americans are being brainwashed by the Obama led Democrats (Biden is just a geriatric senile puppet!) who are controlling the COVID-19 narratives with the help of mainstream media and certain tech giants, that the COVID-19 crisis is going to be over soon for America and that vaccines are super effective in curtailing this pandemic and that currently it is only a crisi...
Source: Medical News-LRRC15 And SARS-CoV-2 Nov 17, 2021 3 years ago
A new study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and aided by a specialist from the University of New South Wales (Both of which are the only two leading credible medical and biological sciences research entities in the state of New South Wales, Australia) have in a new study discovered a new receptor called LRRC15 that the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins are able to bind with and that also ...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2 Nov 16, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University School of Medicine and University of Texas Medical Branch has alarmingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 encoded protein contains a histone mimic that disrupts the human host cell epigenetic and chromatin regulation in order to enhance the virus replication. These findings also have alarming impli...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 16, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: American Scientist from Emory University, University of Texas and Washington University School of Medicine have in a new study discovered that CCR2 signaling inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection!
Current evidence suggests that COVID-19 severe disease is associated with dysregulated immunity within the respiratory tract. However, the innate immune mechanisms that mediate prote...
COVID-19 Drugs: University of California-San Francisco and Stanford University researchers have in a new study involving the meta-analysis of health records from 87 health care centers across America found that individuals taking a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), especially Fluoxetine or Fluvoxamine were significantly less likely to die of COVID-19 ...
As infection, hospitalization and mortality rates continue to rise in the United Kingdom, even among the fully vaccinated, medical experts are starting to worry about the waning immune protection offered by these vaccines.
In the UK COVID-19 vaccine surveillance reports for Weeks 43 to 45, compiled data showed that despite the rate of deaths being substantially lower in vaccinated gr...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 15, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from Ohio State University-USA have in a new murine study surprising found that Mycobacterium tuberculosis may induce resistance to secondary SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Mtb or Mycobacterium tuberculosis and CoV2 or SARS-CoV-2 are both leading pathogens that causes an infectious disease that sometimes lead to death.
Both are distinct organisms which both cause lung diseas...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Nov 15, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: One of the UK’s leading experts in COVID-19 testing, Dr Quinton Fivelman PhD from London Medical Laboratory has issued a warning that current standard COVID-19 PCR test is not able to pick up many of the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-variants. He made the alert publicly and also warned various health agencies and also testing sites across the UK and the res...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2 Research Nov 14, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study by French researchers from INSERM, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier along with scientific support from the University of California Irvine-USA have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein (E) binds and activates TLR2 and causes production of CXCL8 inflammatory chemokine.
The study findings show that the often-ignored SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein (E)...
Source: Medical News-COVID-19 Drugs Nov 14, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by Austrian researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, University of Innsbruck and the Johannes Kepler University-Austria has found that not only does the anticoagulant-low molecular weight Heparin reduces the risk of disease severity and mortality about those with COVID019 but it also curtails the duration of the SARS-CoV-2 Infectio...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 B.1.640 Variant Nov 13, 2021 3 years ago
French health authorities have reported the emergence of yet another new SARS-Cov-2 variant called B.1.640 which has a few deletions and unique mutations on its spike proteins.
Though not much data is available at the moment, the new variant is though to be more potent and cause disease severity but may not be that transmissible as compared to the Delta lineages.
The new variant has...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by researchers from Lanzhou University-China, the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology-China, Washington University-USA, the Ocean University of China, Fudan University-China and the Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao-China has discovered that the phytochemical Xanthohumol extracted from the hops flower is a potent broad s...