Thailand Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2020 2 years ago
For the past few weeks we have been constantly been bombarded with half-baked research studies mostly by greedy researchers or institutions that are often funded directly or indirectly by the U.S. Government agencies like NIH, CDC etc or by the pharmaceutical and biotech companies that have a vested interested in the current vaccines and antibody therapeutics making claims that antibodies provide ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Dec 24, 2020 2 years ago
The Africa CDC has reported that another new SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged in Nigeria and is working on defining the mutations on the genomic structure of the new variant.
On Thursday, Africa's top public health official, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr John Nkengasong told media, "It's a separate lineage from the UK and South Africa.&qu...
Source: B.1.1.7 UK Variant Dec 24, 2020 2 years ago
Some of the mutations on the B.1.1.7 U.K. variant are actually the result of neutralizing antibodies induced spike protein mutations and warrants concerns according to a new study led by scientist from University of Cambridge that is published on a preprint server and is currently being peer reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.05.20241927v2
SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein i...
COVID-19 News: Austrian researchers from the University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital-Vienna and the Medical University of Innsbruck have in a new study alarmingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic are undergoing strategic mutations that affect the host immune capacity to recognize and combat the patho...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Dec 23, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by medical scientists from Rutgers University shows that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who had secondary blood infections typically developed disease severity and were significantly sicker upon hospital admission, had longer hospital stays and poorer outcomes.
This is the first study to date to assess the microbiology, risk factors and outcomes i...
Source: UK Variant B.1.1.7 Dec 23, 2020 2 years ago
The U.S. CDC updated its site with details of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant VOC 202012/01 (Also known as B.1.1.7) along with possible implications.
The CDC site indicated that the current COVID-19 Vaccines approved by the U.S. FDA ie Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines might not be able to offer protection against this new variant! https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/sc...
COVID-19 Herbs: Researchers from the Medical University Duisburg-Essen-Germany, Ruhr University Bochum-Germany and the Institute for Virology at the University Hospital Essen-Germany have in a new vitro study demonstrated that the phytochemical Glycyrrhizin extracted from licorice root is able to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the causative pathogen that c...
Source: U.S. Medical News Dec 22, 2020 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: As of today, more than 18 million Americans have contracted the COVID-19 disease, of which more than 85 per cent of them are going to have to endure some kind of long term health complication. More than 320,000 Americans have died from the disease, disrupting and causing grief to many families and loved ones.
When the COVID-19 crisis first started in China and during th...
COVID-19 News: Physicians from the Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago- Illinois report a case the first documented case so far of a 14 month year old boy contracting Laryngotracheitis (Croup) as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection.
Laryngotracheobronchitis, commonly called as Croup, also known as is a type of respiratory infection&nbs...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Dec 21, 2020 2 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus News: Local transmissions of COVID-19 are increasing in Thailand after the initial reported cases in Samut Sakhon province.
Myanmar Workers at Samut Sakhon made to queue up
in public to take COVID-19 tests without any social distancing etc!
Samut Sakhon: The first patient of this outbreak was a 68 year old Thai woman who has never gone out of the country, meaning the ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Dec 21, 2020 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand Medical News has been calling for careful monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 mutation strains emerging. However we were constantly ridiculed by certain so called ‘experts ‘including one from the University College London who is under the payroll of numerous pharmaceutical companies and whose very own colleagues are now r...
News-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University Of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) may help explain as to why the risk of strokes is greatly increased in SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infected individuals. In the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of strokes has greatly risen and in many countries, excess deaths has been attributed to an increase in strokes. Stroke manifestat...
Source: Thailand COVID-19 News Dec 19, 2020 2 years ago
Thailand COVID-19 News: Thai health officials from the CSSA (Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration) made a shocking announcement on Saturday December 19th at about 9pm Bangkok time that there were a total of 548 new confirmed cases of local transmission of COVID-19 in Thailand at Samut Sakhon province.
Myanmar Migrant Workers Sorting Seafood At Samut Sakhon
What was shocking was no...
Source: Preprints-COVID-19 Dec 19, 2020 2 years ago
Preprints-COVID-19: Currently on a daily average there are about almost 140 research studies being published on numerous preprint servers but many do not even get the attention of science or medical journals unless they can afford the high fees charged by some of these journals or they have the backing of huge pharmaceutical companies behind them or have access to the right contacts as there is a ...
COVID-19 News: A new research by scientists from the University of California Riverside, University of Zurich, McGill University-Montreal, University of California-San Diego and Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope has discovered that the autoimmune PTPN2 risk variant rs1893217 gene found in most individuals with autoimmune diseases including Inflammatory bowel disease IBD, rheuma...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Dec 19, 2020 2 years ago
A new SARS-CoV-2 mutation strain that exhibits spike deletion mutations ΔH69/ΔV70 is fast becoming prevalent and is not only able only escape human host immune recognition but could well also be resistant to various types of antibodies according to a new research by scientists from the University College London, University of Cambridge and the University of Glasgow Centre for Vir...
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from the University of Utah and the University of California-Davis shows that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus like particles are highly sensitive to temperature increases and thrives in cooler temperatures.
The SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Other known coronaviruses show a strong pattern of seasonality, with t...
COVID-19 News: Scientists from Yale Medical School have made yet another alarming discovery that the human host’s blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are able to harbor the SARS-CoV-2 genome with implications for viral persistence and dangers to various human organs over time.
Various different viruses infect circulating mononuclear cells to disseminate infection to diverse organs. Blood...
COVID-19 Drugs: The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is currently taking a toll on numerous countries around the world with daily global infection rates now surpassing 700,000 and daily COVID-19 deaths now exceeding 13,000 (On December 16th new records were reported with more than 725,950 COVID-19 infections in 24 hours and 13,558 COVID-19 deaths).
As of Friday, (9am Bangkok time), th...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 18, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle and Oregon Health & Science University-Portland have in a new study demonstrated that the spike or S protein of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to penetrate and cross the blood-brain barrier in mice models indicating that it is most probably able t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 17, 2020 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine- Saint Louis, Missouri has found that the surface proteins on sars-cov-2 virus modifies expression of key cytokines and chemokines in cell lines, inducing induce interferon-dependent inflammation.
According to the study team, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, robustly activates the host imm...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 17, 2020 2 years ago
According to a new study led by scientist from the University of Manchester –UK, previously healthy children infected with COVID-19 can develop severe neurological complications.
The CNS manifestations of COVID-19 in children have primarily been described in case reports, which limit the ability to appreciate the full spectrum of the disease in pediatric patients.
This study ...
Vaccine News: An American health worker from Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting a Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine shot and was hospitalized, but is now stable, U.S. public health authorities said on Wednesday.
The health worker with no known allergies suffered adverse reaction minutes after taking the Pfizer shot on Tuesday.
Similar cases were rep...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research-Cambridge, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering-Harvard University, Department of Biology-Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences-Harvard University have alarmingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 RNA is reverse-transcribed...
Source: Supplements For COVID-19 Dec 17, 2020 2 years ago
Supplements For COVID-19: A new study by researchers from CIRI (Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie)-France and the University Hospital of St-Etienne-France have shown that copper gluconate is able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection n vitro and has the potential to be used as a supplement to help in controlling COVID-19 infections in the role as an adjuvant.
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Diabetes News: Australian researchers led by the University of Adelaide that involved six specialist centers across Australia have in the largest randomized trial ever conducted investigating testosterone treatment shown that, over and above the effect of a lifestyle program, treatment with testosterone prevents or reverses newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in men.
Men who are overweight or ...
Vaccine News: A new preliminary study led by researchers from Oxford University and includes scientists from University College London, Université de Strasbourg-France and University of Birmingham-UK shows that a natural compound called spermidine, which helps immune cells self-clean, may improve vaccine protection in older adults.
According to the study abstract, older adults are ...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude in a perspective editorial that while a fever is one of the most common symptoms for individuals who get sick with COVID-19, taking one's temperature is a poor means of screening who is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the disease, and more importantly, who m...
Source: U.S. Medical News Dec 15, 2020 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Various media are covering the plight of an American ER doctor who tweeted his concerns his concern about the lack of available ICU beds on Nov. 22 in the state of Arizona and was subsequently ‘fired’ from the Yuma Regional Medical Center at Arizona despite a shortage of doctors as he had apparently made Governor Doug Ducey look like a liar after the governor h...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine-Philadelphia warns that the SARS-CoV-2 can in most times damage children's blood vessels, with consequences that might surface decades after the infection subsides.
Although most children with SARS-CoV-2 infection have mild or minimal dis...
Coronavirus News: More good news for those sick with the arrogance of the British, Americans and French so called medical ‘experts’ and the clandestine behavior of the governments from these countries in trying to curtail news and developments about the COVID-19 disease to its citizens through the support of wire agencies, mainstream media, social media and also search engines.
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COVID-19 News: British researchers from University College London, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge University NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, University of Kent and University of Amsterdam have in a new research discovered the emergence of antibody resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in a COVID-19 patient who had been tr...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Dec 14, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi-India describes the prevalence of single nucleotide variations within a single host, suggesting that this phenomenon seems to be much more common in the Indian population, and that this may lead to the emergence of many variants in the population. Importantly the variants may...
COVID-19 Tips: A new study by researchers from University of Massachusetts and Brown University-Rhode Island utilizing a new series of computational fluid dynamics simulations suggests that, for two people who must travel together in the same passenger car, the safest way to prevent possible transmission of COVID-19 in such a risky, enclosed environment is to do so with all four windows ...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 14, 2020 2 years ago
A new COVID-19 research study by scientists from the Rockfeller University-New York, New York University School of Medicine and Heidelberg University-Germany have identified a single protein that appears necessary for the COVID-19 virus to reproduce and spread to other cells.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of over 1.61 million individuals worldwide. The causativ...
Vaccine Updates: America has just crossed the 300,000 COVID-19 deaths milestone a few minutes ago and more than 16.2 million Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 while in the United Kingdom, the situation is just as bad but we are unable to report any figures as most official figures are unreliable as a result as a result of a concerted effort by certain authorities to mask the real...
Source: COVID-19 Reinfections Dec 14, 2020 2 years ago
More cases of COVID-19 reinfections are emerging around the world in recent months and researchers are keenly interested in such cases which are still considered rare but still on the rise. Many experts are speculating in the coming months, we will witness more reinfections.
While we now have medically documented cases of COVID-19 reinfections published in a variety of journals, the mains...
Source: World COVID-19 News Dec 13, 2020 2 years ago
World COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 crisis is escalating exponentially with the total COVID-19 deaths now crossing the 1.6 million milestone and reaching more than 1,607,900 as of Sunday (1700hrs Bangkok).
The total number of global COVID-19 infections has now reached more than 71.8 million.
The projections for total deaths and infections by the 31st Of December 2020 is that we will ...
Source: Ivermectin and COVID-19 Dec 13, 2020 2 years ago
Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in various stages of the disease is turning to be a more viable and proven option despite strong opposition from groups with vested interest in America and Europe.\
This time, a double blind, placebo- controlled randomized clinical trial tested the efficacy of the drug to treat mild conditions of the disease and to see how it prevents high viral loads, how it prevente...
COVID-19 News: A Post-mortem study by ophthalmologist and researchers from the Center for Vision and Eye Banking Research, Eversight-Cleveland, Wayne State University-Detroit, Rush University-Chicago and the University of Michigan have shockingly found the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in eye ocular tissues.
These findings were of a concern and could have varied implications.
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Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 13, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University Of California-Irvine have discovered that distant residues modulate the conformational openings in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The researchers also warn that the mutations in these residues could generate new coronavirus strains with different degrees of infectivity and virulence, resulting in future epidemics.
The study team says th...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Dec 13, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have identified potential treatments for COVID-19 after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease. The genes: IFNAR2, TYK2, OAS1, DPP9 and CCR2 partially explain why some individuals become desperately sick with COVID-19, while others are not affected.
According to the study team’s ...
Vaccine News: It was officially announced by Peru health authorities on Friday that the government has temporarily suspended clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers.
It was reported that a participant had developed a neurological condition known as Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The Per...
COVID-19 News: Doctors and researchers from the pediatric neurology department, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel-UK have published a new COVID-19 case report in the peer reviewed European Journal of Epilepsy, the Seizure, detailing an alarming documented case of a patient suffering cortical damage as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The case report ...
Source: Herbs For COVID-19 Dec 10, 2020 2 years ago
Herbs For COVID-19: Numerous emerging studies are indicating and suggesting that a phytochemical called eugenol that is extracted from cloves could perhaps be used in a variety of ways to prevent, treat and control SARS-CoV-2 infections ie either as an oral adjuvant or even in terms of nasal and oral sprays or as an inhalant.
Most of the studies were initiated by Thailand Medical News sin...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Dec 10, 2020 2 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus News: Thailand recently announced that it has opened the country to tourist from all countries as long as they have relevant COVID-19 tests prior to boarding and have applied and paid for the relevant visas in their home countries and have signed up for the 14 day prepaid quarantine packages in Thailand coupled with relevant medical insurance and other preconditions.
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U.S. Hospitals are running short of ICU beds as COVID-19 infection rates are fast climbing. In the last 24 hours, there were 225,441 new COVID-19 cases reported in America while a new record of 3,242 Americans have died from the COVID-19 disease in the last 24 hours. Current hospitalizations have reached 106,920 while more than 24,000 cases are termed as critically ill with more than 8,200 individ...
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from Boston University Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine shows that SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause a wide range of neurological complications, even in patients who are not critically ill.
The study was conducted to characterize the breadth of neurologic findings associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a diverse group of in...
Source: British Medical Journal Dec 10, 2020 2 years ago
The British Medical Journal is one of the few credible and untainted medical journals left that believes in real scientific facts and data, ethics, transparency and cannot be manipulated by money as in the case of certain other journals that are literally in the hands of pharmaceutical companies or the U.S. or China governments.
Day by day its seems that the monies of the big pharma compa...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine News Dec 09, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine News: The U.S. FDA has warned that four participants in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials had developed facial paralysis while UK regulators have issued yet another warning that individuals with allergies should avoid the COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S FDA commenting on the incident of the 4 individuals developing facial paralysis after having the Pfizer’s COVID-19 ...
COVID-19 Alerts: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned all medical staff and hospitals that protective face masks containing metal can heat to unsafe temperatures during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses strong magnets and radio waves (radiofrequency energy) to make pictures of the inside of the body. MRIs hel...
SARS-Cov-2 News: Scientist from at Gladstone Institutes and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, in collaboration with scientists at University of California- San Francisco (UCSF) and Synthego Corporation, have identified critical molecular processes in human cells that coronaviruses including the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to survive.
According to the study team’s abstract, the Coronavirida...
COVID-19-News: Medical researchers from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-New Jersey have reported the first documented case of COVID-19 triggering a recurrence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome , a rare disorder where the body's immune system attacks nerves and can lead to respiratory failure and death.
COVID-19 has been reported to trigger Guillain–Barr&eacu...
Healthcare News: According to a new study by researchers from the University of Glasgow-UK, healthcare workers are 7 times as likely to have severe COVID-19 infection as those with other types of 'non-essential' jobs.
The study findings were based on the first UK-wide lockdown and are published online in the peer- reviewed journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. ht...
Source: India Medical News Dec 08, 2020 2 years ago
India Medical News: Health authorities in the town of Eluru in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh are reporting the emergence of a new strange disease that has affected more than 487 individuals so far with one death.
Credit: PTI
Most manifest symptoms similar to epilepsy attacks that last for few minutes and loss of memory coupled with anxiety, nausea, headache and back pain and a few ...
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