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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: COVID-19 Drugs  Jan 14, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from University of Birmingham-UK, Keele University-UK,  San Raffaele Scientific Institute-Italy, University of Copenhagen-Denmark and  the University of Liverpool-UK demonstrates that the  drug called Fenofibrate exhibits antiviral properties against the SARS-CoV- coronavirus and could be repurposed to treat COVID-19.   Fenofibrate, ...
Source: COVID-19 News  Jan 14, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have discovered a new variant of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 called the COH.20G/501Y variant.   The scientist are still in the process of deciphering all the various mutations found on the genome of this new variant but do admit that the new variant carries a...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jan 14, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley have in a new study identified the SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 protein as being responsible for the rapidly evolving immune evasion characteristics of emerging strains and also responsible for the increasing pathogenicity of the coronavirus. Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 ORF8. (A) A 2Fo-Fc el...
Source: Vaccine News  Jan 13, 2021  3 years ago
Vaccine News: At least three Democratic members of the House of Representatives despite having been vaccinated with the Pzifer/BioNtech vaccine were tested positive after the violent intrusion of Capitol by Trump supporters who were instigated to do so by the President himself! The three house representatives despite being masked themselves had to shelter for hours in tight proximity with Republic...
Source: Post COVID-19  Jan 12, 2021  3 years ago
Post-COVID: A new study by researchers from Saint James's Hospital-Dublin and Trinity College-Dublin shows that even individuals who only experienced mild symptoms of COVID-19 initially upon infection, still continue to suffer a host of health complications even months after ‘recovery’.   Much is known about the acute infective process of SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus of t...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Jan 12, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by the Korea University led by microbiologist Heenam Stanley Kim Ph.D, from Division of Biosystems & Biomedical Sciences has found that individuals with poor gut health likely to develop severity when infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   COVID-19, which has been declared a pandemic, has exhibited a wide range of severity worldwide. Although this globa...
Source: B.1.1.248 Variant  Jan 12, 2021  3 years ago
B.1.1.248 Variant: Japan health authorities have identified a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in travellers originating from Brazil.   Shockingly, the new variant called B.1.1.248 has 12 mutations on the spike protein alone!   Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases on late Sunday said it had detected a new variant of the coronavirus in four travelers arriving from Brazil.  ...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Jan 12, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: Scientists from Columbia University in New York, the University of Washington, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated in a new vitro study that extracts from the herb Artemisia Annua inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus replication, making it a possible therapeutic candidate for COVID-19. Artemisia Annua Being Grown In Dok Kham Thai-Phayao, Thailand.   The curr...
Source: Ivermectin-COVID-19  Jan 12, 2021  3 years ago
Ivermectin-COVID-19: Indian researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have conducted a a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial that demonstrated the efficacy of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 disease. The clinical trial showed that Ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, can reduce in-hospital mortality rate COVID-19 patients. Ivermectin is currently being used ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research News  Jan 11, 2021  3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research News: A new study led by scientist from the University of Cambridge and also the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health along with researchers from the University of Sheffield have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is capable of downregulating a critical human host protein called Tetherin which in turns enhances it sp...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations  Jan 11, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: Researchers the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine- University of Hawaii have in a new study found that the P681H mutation emerging on sequencings of many globally prevalent SARS-CoV-2 strains.   This P681H mutation is immediately adjacent to the furin cleavage site, a known location of biological sig...
Source: Vaccine News  Jan 10, 2021  3 years ago
Vaccine News: Pfizer’s PR teams and the corrupted media they must have probably bought along with unethical medical experts are all helping to mislead the public that their vaccines are truly effective against the new variants including the B.1.1.7 strain.   Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Friday that their COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the emerging variants. https:...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jan 10, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: The US FDA has issued official warnings about the potential risk for false negative results with PCR molecular tests for SARS-CoV-2 due to mutations such as a recently detected B.1.1.7 variant of the virus.   The US regulator issued an alert to clinical laboratory staff and clinicians. The agency warned that false negative results can occur with any molecular test for ...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Jan 08, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from Brown University-Rhode Island, U.S., Yale University School of Medicine-U.S. and Kurume University School of Medicine-Japan have in a new study identified a human host enzyme called chitinase 3-like-1 (CHI3L1) as playing a critical role in the progression to disease severity of elderly COVID-19 patients.   COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (SC2) coronavi...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 08, 2021  3 years ago
A new international study lead by medical researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that common medications used to treat high blood pressure did not affect outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. This study findings provides relief to many as during the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were speculations that certain blood pr...
Source: COVID-19 News  Jan 07, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: Spanish researchers from the University of Valencia and INCLIVA Health Research Institute have discovered in a new study that Severe COVID-19 recovered patients do not display long-lasting adaptive immune responses.   The study has recently investigated the durability of immune responses specifically developed against SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of COVID-19. The study ...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Jan 07, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: According to a new study by researchers from the University of Bristol-UK and the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, patients with acute heart failure nearly double their risk of dying if they get COVID-19.   In this single‐centre observational study, the study team examined referrals to the acute heart failure team over a period of 16 week...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Variant  Jan 07, 2021  3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Variant: British researchers warn that that existing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) may not be sufficient to contain the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant that is fast becoming the prevailing dominant strain. The new variant has a higher binding affinity and is more infectious coupled with the fact that it has a higher replication rate.   Claims b...
Source: COVID-19 Quarantines  Jan 07, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Quarantines: The U.S. CDC has published a new warning that there is some onward transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from household contacts released from quarantine after seven or 10 days and that extra precautions still need to be adhered to.   The U.S. CDC warning was issued after a study was published in the Jan. 1 issue of the U.S. Cente...
Source: Vaccine News  Jan 06, 2021  3 years ago
Vaccine News: While the world is foolishly thinking that the COVID-19 vaccines are going to get things back to normal quickly, more concerning findings are emerging about the real efficacy of these vaccines that were basically initiated by the Trump administration (the same group that gave us scams like hydrocholoroquine, remdesivir, then Eli lily’s monoclonal antibodies and also Regeneron c...
Source: COVID-19 News  Jan 06, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: Polish researchers from the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences are warning based on a new study that the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 detected in England replicates more than two times faster than the earlier strains. This replication advantage enhances its capability to become to a dominant global variant in a matter of a short time.   The novel SARS‐Co...
Source: U.S. Medical News  Jan 06, 2021  3 years ago
U.S. Medical News: It was reported that ambulances in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California are now stopping to transport some patients due to strain on hospitals as result of an exponential surge in COVID-19 cases.   In Los Angeles, ambulance workers have been told to stop transporting some patients with extremely low survival chances to hospital, and to limit oxygen use, as record COVID...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine News:  Jan 06, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine News: About 9 hours ago, the Norwegian Medicines Agency announced that two inmates in a nursing home died few days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine made by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech that is owned by a Turkish muslim national, Uğur Şahin.  https://legemiddelverket.no/nyheter/dodsfall-hos-sykehjemsbeboere-etter-koronavaksinerin...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Updates  Jan 06, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Updates: A new silico study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) identifies the dynamics of the different COVID-19 phenotypes for optimizing clinical management and using better therapeutic strategies.   A unique feature of COVID-19 is its extreme heterogeneity ie illness ranges from minimally symptomatic to life threatening. This heterogeneity is a res...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jan 05, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in a new detailed interactome study between the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and human host cells have identified 437 human proteins as high-confidence interacting proteins.   Host-virus protein-protein interaction is the key component of the SARS-CoV-2 lifecycle.   The study team conducted a comp...
Source: UK COVID-19 News  Jan 05, 2021  3 years ago
UK COVID-19 News : The COVID-19 crisis in Britain is fast escalating and the UK healthcare system might witness a total collapse if things do not improve in the next few days. Already hospitals are overflowing and more than 58,000 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the last 24 hours along with 407 COVID-19 Deaths. To date, the United Kingdom has now climbed up to the fifth position in terms ...
Source: Pharma News  Jan 05, 2021  3 years ago
Pharma News: Florida based AzurRx BioPharma, a company specializing in the development of non-systemic therapies for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases has announced that it has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with First Wave Bio, Inc for the use of their patented and proprietary oral and rectal formulations of niclosamide for the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-as...
Source: 2021 COVID-19  Jan 04, 2021  3 years ago
For those thinking 2020 was a bad year and that 2021 would be much better. Think again. Cast aside all these talks by clueless individuals saying that businesses and even tourism will bounce back this year. Be prepared for meltdowns in the financial and stock markets and in the worst scenario, there could even be a time when even currencies, gold and even bitcoins might not have any worth as compa...
Source: Influenza News  Jan 03, 2021  3 years ago
Influenza News: A new study by researchers from University of Michigan School of Public Health-U.S., University of Washington School of Public Health-U.S., Jorma Gallen-Kallela Memorial Research Library-Finland and the Keck School of Medicine-University of Southern California-U.S. have found that cadmium is linked to more severe outcomes in influenza and pneumonia infections and also possibly even...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jan 03, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Indian scientists from the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum, Kerala-INDIA along with researchers from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School-USA and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center-USA have in a recent computational study implicated a dysregulated vitamin D pathway in the pathobiology of the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and opened the doo...
Source: Vaccine News  Jan 03, 2021  3 years ago
Vaccine News: Israeli’s Hadashot 13 TV News Channel has reported yesterday that more than 240 Israelis who had been earlier vaccinated with the Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine still tested positive for the COVID-19 disease.   The mass vaccination against COVID-19 began in Israel at the end of December, with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Rivlin receiving the first doses o...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies  Jan 02, 2021  3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies: A study by scientists from the University of Oxford involving UK healthcare workers shows how antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection can wane over time, depending on age, previous symptoms and ethnicity.   SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody measurements can be used to estimate the proportion of a population exposed or infected and may be informative about the risk of future ...
Source: Coronavirus News  Jan 02, 2021  3 years ago
Coronavirus News: A detailed autopsy study conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health has alarmingly uncovered hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples from COVID-19 patients who died shortly after contracting the disease. However, the researchers saw no signs of SARS-CoV-2 in the tissue samples, suggesting the damage was not caused by a dir...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jan 02, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study published in the peer reviewed journal: Journal of Translational Autoimmunity indicates that pathogenic priming plays a part in COVID-19 disease severity and mortality via autoimmunity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589909020300186   Importantly homology between human and viral proteins is an established factor in viral- or vaccine-induce...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms  Dec 31, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: According to researchers and medical professionals, a majority of recovering COVID-19 patients and also those undergoing Long COVID conditions will also end up suffering from parosmia with frequent experiences of foul and disgusting smells. This condition can last for weeks or even months. Although anosmia  or loss of smell is a coronavirus symptom, but some with long COVI...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Dec 31, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from the University Of Cincinnati warns against the use of the overpriced U.S. FDA approved remdesivir drug and in situations when it is being still used, extra caution and monitoring need to be observed as the drug exhibits drug interactions with numerous drugs and increases toxicity.   The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journa...
Source: COVID-19 Immuno-Genetics  Dec 30, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 Immuno-Genetics: A new study by researchers from University of Edinburgh-UK shows that genes could be key to new COVID-19 treatments.   Potential treatments for COVID-19 have been identified after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease.   The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Nature Communications. https://www....
Source: COVID-19 Research  Dec 30, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Seville Institute of Biomedicine-Spain, the University Hospitals Virgen del Rocío y Macarena-Spain and University of Seville-Spain have found that silent hypoxemia or the lack of blood oxygenation detected in numerous COVID-19 patients is possibly due to carotid bodies being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The carotid bodies (C...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 30, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by scientists specializing in high-altitude diseases from the High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute (IPPA)-Bolivia have proposed a new hypothesis that states that pneumolysis and not cytokines storms are what are that are causing lung damage in COVID-19 patients.   This new findings challenges all initial assumptions about the pathogenesis and disease pr...
Source: Virus News  Dec 30, 2020  3 years ago
Virus News: Scientists from University of Alabama have in a new study found that individuals recovering from COVID-19 exhibit sustained cellular immune dysregulation.   To date it has been found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and significant mortality.   Research investigating underlying immune characteristics is needed to understand d...
Source: Metformin-COVID-19  Dec 29, 2020  3 years ago
Metformin-COVID-19: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists in a recent published clinical case report warns that diabetes patients taking SGLT2 Inhibitors to manage their diabetes may develop rare and sometimes serious complications upon contracting COVID-19.   SGLT2 inhibitors are a class of prescription medicines that are FDA-approved for use with diet and exercise to ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Dec 28, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute-Spain, Dentaid Research Center-Cerdanyola del Vallès, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)-Badalona, and the Central University of Catalonia have discovered through in vitro studies that cetylpyridinium chloride, found in most mouthwashes, lowers infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 likely by inhibiting viral fusion w...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants  Dec 28, 2020  3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by researchers from CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)-India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-HRDC Ghaziabad-India and the Kurnool Medical College-India have identified 19 New SARS-CoV-2 variants in India with one possessing the N440K Mutation. All of these strains have human host immune evading mechanisms. ...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 27, 2020  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: Don’t you just like it when COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, researchers and American and British journalists under the payroll of Pharmaceutical giants, certain news wire agencies and also clueless health authorities around the world making public statements that the current COVID-19 vaccines will not be affected by the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants despite some having as much ...
Source: Vaccine News  Dec 26, 2020  3 years ago
Vaccine News: Individuals who have cosmetic facial fillers be it in their lips, nose, eye contours or elsewhere in their face will likely develop swellings and inflammation on those areas after having a dose of the Moderna’s vaccine.   This was observed during initial clinical trials and also in certain individuals as the vaccines rolled out   Also the U.S.FDA advisory committee ...
Source: COVID-19 Study  Dec 25, 2020  3 years ago
A new COVID-19 Study by scientist from McMaster University-Canada, Beijing Institute of Technology-China and Columbia University- USA has revealed that that SARS-CoV-2 spike and antibody binding strength and hydrogen bonds quantity are temperature dependent.   In their abstract, the study team said that the global efforts so far against the COVID-19 pandemic relies strongly on the human def...
Source: COVID-19 In 2021  Dec 25, 2020  3 years ago
As the year comes to an end, we have been having so much “garbage” spewing from the mouths of individuals who either have no clue what brewing with regards to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or are maybe are just trying to inject in some optimism to prevent social unrest.   In mid of 2020, we had so called authorities who said that tourism and businesses will pick up at end of the ye...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Dec 25, 2020  3 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  3 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  3 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...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 23, 2020  3 years ago
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  3 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  3 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...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Dec 22, 2020  3 years ago
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  3 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...

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