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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: Thailand Medical - Long COVID Erectile Dysfunction Oct 27, 2022 5 months ago
Long COVID Erectile Dysfunction: It seems that for Thais, sex is an important component of their life considering what the country’s night life is famous for and what social media is basically being used for in the country and the volume of pornography that is associated with Thais (just visit the porn sites and add Thai in the search functions for any category or go to sites like Only Fans)...
Source: COVID-19 News - Infections -2023 Oct 26, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington - USA have predicted based on their existing modeling platform and taking into considerations that current Omicron variants and sub-lineages that has emerged including the BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and XBB variants and their emerging sub-lineages, that daily COVID-19 infections globally could rise to about 18.7 milli...
Source: Medical News - Chronic Heart Failure - COVID-19 Oct 25, 2022 5 months ago
A new study involving murine models by researchers from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo-Japan has found that 5-ALA (of 5-aminolevulinic acid) could reverse or prevent mitochondrial dysfunction that causes chromic heart failure!
5-Aminolevulinic acid is a porphyrin precursor used to treat actinic keratosis of the face, scalp, and upper extremities, as well as to vi...
Source: Source: COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Variants & Sub-lineages Oct 25, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Despite warnings from Chinese researchers and other virologists that the new SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants and sub-lineages could be reverting to the same level of pathogenesis as that of the original SARS virus that debuted in 2002, none of these sub-lineages like the BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BA.2.3.20 or even the XBB recombinant variant seems to causing disease severity or even increased death...
Source: Medical News - New Pathogen Oct 25, 2022 5 months ago
Researchers from MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, School of Infection and Immunity – United Kingdom have identified a new pathogen that can evade the human host immune system, The new pathogen is hybrid virus comprising of fused viral particles from the RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and the IAV (influenza A virus) viruses.
To date, it is already known that in...
Source: COVID-19 Research Oct 24, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 Research: A new longitudinal cohort study led by researchers from the Universitat de Barcelona - Spain and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology - Spain has found that unvaccinated primary healthcare workers sustained seropositivity up to 20.5 months after COVID-19 and long-lasting SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity!
The COVID-19 Research team that also included researc...
Source: COVID-19 News - Elderly And The Boosters Oct 24, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Worryingly, new study findings by researchers from Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID)- UK, University of Cambridge-UK, Wellcome Sanger Institute-UK and University College London have found that booster shots in the aged leads to impaired SARS-CoV-2 neutralization, impaired T cells and also atypical B cells!
These findings warrant f...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Food Borne Oct 24, 2022 5 months ago
A new study by researchers from the Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Biotechnology and Natural Resources, Chung-Ang University-South Korea has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can remain viable on many food products for a long time depending on the storage temperatures.
The study findings showed that at freezing temperatures, SARS-CoV-2 remained viable for up to four week...
COVID-19 News - Newer Omicron Variants -T Cell Escape Oct 23, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Already with so many of the newly emerged Omicron variants and sub-lineages displaying greater and wider antibody escape, the potential threat of future variants or sub-lineages characterized by T cell evasion is an ongoing concern that is worrying many researchers.
As SARSCoV-2 approaches optimal cell entry, other selection advantages, e.g., T cell escape, may be utilized ...
Source: Medical News - Flu Shots Oct 22, 2022 5 months ago
Its already clearly showing that the Influenza season has started not only in the Northern hemisphere but also in parts of the Southern hemisphere.
In America, the flu season started earlier than expected.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2022-2023/early-flu-activity.htm
The flu season this year is being dominated by the H3N2 strain that has been previously associated with more s...
Source: Medical News - Thromboinflammation Driving COVID-19 Thrombosis Oct 22, 2022 5 months ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Bristol – United Kingdom has found that SARS-CoV-2 induced platelet driven thromboinflammation increases the risk of thrombosis in COVID-19 patients.
Numerous past studies have already showed that individuals with COVID-19 are at increased risk of thrombosis, which is associated with altered platelet function and coagulopathy, contri...
The SARS-CoV-2 recombinant variant XBB that is made up of two worrisome variants ie BM.1.1.1 and BJ.1 and is believed to be one of the most immune evasive variants to date besides the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants is now also evolving rapidly and spawning a variety of sub-lineages itself.
The XBB variant that seems to be predominant in circulation in Singapore in the last 2 weeks and also in B...
Source: COVID-19 News -BQ.1, BQ.1.1 - Increased Fusogenicity Oct 21, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: In a new research by scientists from The Ohio State University – USA and Wexner Medical Center, Ohio - USA to study the neutralization resistance of the subvariants a BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BA.4.6, BF.7 and BA.2.75.2 as well as their ancestral BA.4/5, BA.2.75 and D614G variants against sera from 3-dose vaccinated health care workers, hospitalized BA.1-wave patients, and BA.5-wave patie...
Source: COVID-19 News - Banana Lectin H84T As A SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Oct 21, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: A new study conducted by researchers from University of Hong Kong – China, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz – Austria and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor-USA has found that lectins derived from bananas could serve as effective antivirals against the SARS-CoV-2 virus including against the Omicron variant.
As early as 2020, Thailand Medical News has cov...
Source: COVID-19 News - Endothelial Disease Oct 20, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: In the beginning of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were first led to believe the COVID-19 disease is but a respiratory disease that affects the lungs and later we were given the impression that the hyperinflammatory states or cytokine storms that arose as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 infection was the cause of the various manifestations seen in COVID-19 patients including vari...
Source: Medical News -COVID-19 Isolation Period Oct 19, 2022 5 months ago
A new study by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, California-USA has demonstrated that current recommendation by the U.S. CDC for a 5-day isolation period for anyone that test positive for COVID-19 to prevent spread of the disease is inadequate especially when the BA.2 variants and its sub-lineages are concerned!
Surprisingly, one of the non-scientific based decision...
Source: COVID-19 News - Mandatory Genomic Sequencing Oct 19, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Never in the history of virology have experts ever witnessed the rapid evolution of a single type of virus spewing out a variety of mutations and spawning an unprecedented rate of new variants and sub-lineages over a very short time period.
In the beginning of the pandemic, many ‘dinosaurs’ in the medical and research communities insisted that the SARS-CoV-2 wil...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Oct 18, 2022 5 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by American researchers from Ohio State University-USA and University of Texas Medical Branch-USA has found that newer Omicron variants or sub-lineages possessing the H655Y mutation tend to display lower fusogenicity with possible implications for lower risk of disease severity initially upon infection.
However, such variants and sub-lineages possessing th...
Source: COVID-19 News - Selective Immunoglobulin A Deficiency (sIgAD) Oct 18, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Medical researchers from Auckland Hospital-New Zealand, University of Auckland-New Zealand and Wellington Hospital-New Zealand have in a new study found that selective immunoglobulin A deficiency (sIgAD) is a risk factor for severe COVID-19.
Selective IgA deficiency (sIgAD) is an immune system condition in which one lacks or don't have enough immunoglobulin A (IgA), a p...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 - Blood And Skin Cancers Oct 18, 2022 5 months ago
In an alarming new development, medical researchers from Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo-Brazil have found that SARS-CoV-2 induced immunological dysregulation can potentially increase the risk of relapses of IB cutaneous T-cell lymphomas such as Sézary Syndrome and Mycosis Fungoides.
The study team presented a documented clinical case stu...
Source: COVID-19 News - Mesenteric Panniculitis And Acute Abdominal Pain Oct 17, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: Despite warnings that the newer Omicron variants and sub-lineages that have emerged and started circulating since weeks 18 to now are displaying more tropism towards the gastrointestinal tissues and causing a variety of gastrointestinal tissues, many scientists not in clinical practice or in the study of the pathogenesis of these new variants are expressing skepticisms.
Tha...
Source: Medical News - Pediatric COVID-19 - Febrile-Seizures Oct 17, 2022 5 months ago
South Korean medical researchers from Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Wonkwang University Medical Center, Gunsan Medical Center, the Presbyterian Medical Center and Design Medical Center in a new study have found that with the emergence of the Omicron variant and its various sub-lineages, the incidence of febrile-seizures has increased among children tested positive for COVID-19. Alarm...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Infections Oct 16, 2022 5 months ago
A new American study involving researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, University of Washington, and the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University has found that far more people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with possible amounts even reaching 2.4 billion people compared what was reported officially!
The study team using a new ...
Long COVID News: A new study conducted by researchers from Stellenbosch University-South Africa has found that the increased levels of six different inflammatory molecules in most post-COVID individuals known to be key drivers of endothelial and clotting pathology, causes thrombotic endotheliitis, a contributing factor to Long COVID.
These six inflammatory molecules were:
-1) Von Willebra...
Source: COVID-19 News - Sitagliptin to counteract waning SARS-CoV-2 antibodies Oct 15, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 News: In what can be regarded as a breakthrough study, scientists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) along with researchers from various research institutions in China have discovered that the plasma metabolite glycylproline (gly-pro) is responsible for the wanning antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients.
The breakthrough study findings can help formulate strategies to ma...
COVID-19 News: Germany’s Health Minister German Karl Lauterbach media on Friday that he favors and advocates requiring mask-wearing indoors, a measure that has largely faded in Germany except on public transport, in medical facilities and care homes.
He also urged the 16 states in the country to consider stepping up their COVID-19 prevention and safety measures as cases rise in the ...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Brain Oct 14, 2022 5 months ago
A new study by researchers from the University of California-Davis, USA involving animal models such as the Rhesus Macaques has found that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect the neurons of the brain and induce inflammation.
SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the etiologic agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), can induce a plethora of neurological complications in some patients.
...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 -HIV Oct 14, 2022 5 months ago
A new study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that HIV patients with moderately low CD4 cell counts risk severe breakthrough COVID-19 infections.
The study team said that understanding the severity of postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 (ie, COVID-19) breakthrough illness among individuals with HIV (PWH) can inform vaccine guidelines and risk-reducti...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University Of Michigan-USA has found that cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as age, smoking and diabetes increase the risk of COVID-19 mortality and not preexisting cardiovascular disease itself!
The study findings showed that the occurrence of myocardial injury, regardless of preexisting CVD, and its association with outcomes...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Paxlovid Oct 13, 2022 5 months ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Leading cardiologists and physicians from various hospitals and medical centers across the state of Massachusetts-USA have issued a warning of adverse drug interactions especially involving heart medications in COVID-19 patients treated with Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir).
The team of specialists from Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 13, 2022 5 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study has found that SARS-CoV-2 mediated dysregulation in cell signaling events are actually driving COVID-19 severity.
In a normal setting, in order to eradicate the illness, an immune response balanced against an unknown pathogen is essential.
Typically, a cascade of cell signaling events is immediately activated upon sensing the presence of SARS-CoV-2 ...
A new study by researchers from University of Birmingham-UK has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections can also trigger a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDS) especially type 1 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis.
The aim of the study was to assess whether there is an association between SARS CoV-2 infection and the incidence of immune mediated ...
A study by Harvard researchers involving humoral immune profiling has discovered that immunity to non-COVID-19 endemic coronaviruses may play a role in who develops PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19) commonly known as Long COVID!
The study team comprised scientists from Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard-USA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Boston, Massachusetts General Hospi...
Source: Pharma News - Metformin - Atrial Fibrillation Oct 12, 2022 6 months ago
A new study by researcher from Cleveland Clinic, Ohio-USA And Northwestern University-Illinois-USA has found that the common generic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes..metformin, can be used to treat atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots in the heart. AF increases the risk of stroke, heart failure...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs -Glutamine, Pyruvate, Rosiglitazone, Arginine, 2-DG Oct 11, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new breakthrough study by researchers from the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University-China and Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen-China has found that glutamine and pyruvate supplementation, and also the drug diabetic drug Rosiglitazone can reduce and prevent cytokine upregulation hyperinflammation as result of inflammation in macrophages induced by the SARS-...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Metformin Oct 11, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Spanish researchers and physicians have in a new study found that the diabetic drug Metformin (Glucophage) lowers the risk of disease severity and fatal outcomes in diabetic patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The study involved medical researchers from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-Spain and Fundació Institu...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research Oct 10, 2022 6 months ago
When Thailand Medical News contacted many researchers and labs that had been involved last year and early this year with studies on the properties, characteristics and pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta and early Omicron variants to see if they had any updates on the latest emerging Omicron sub-lineages, we were shocked to find that most had already stopped such research since June and July 2022...
Source: COVID-19 News - Women Reproductive Health Oct 10, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 News: A review study conducted by researchers from the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences at the American University of Beirut-Lebanon and from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore-USA has found that systemic inflammation triggered by COVID-19 infections affects female reproductive health in a variety of ways.
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Source: COVID-19 Medical Devices Oct 09, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Medical Devices: Researchers and scientists from The Institute for Biomedical Engineering & Nano Science at Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai-China have developed a new face mask that detects the specific type of respiratory virus that is in close proximity and in surrounding environment and alerts the user via a smartphone app. The new face masks are capable of identifyi...
Source: Medical News - New Omicron Sub-lineages Oct 09, 2022 6 months ago
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw that it was the elderly and those with existing comorbidities like high blood pressure, cardiac issues and diabetes that were more susceptible to the disease severity and mortality risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Most of the young especially babies and young kids were spared from the original Wuhan wildtype strain and also from the early varian...
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UPDATES: 10th Novermber 2022
Singapore Health Authorities have informed media in Singapore that the local data and reports from hospitals show that the XBB variant does not cause any disease severity and that the current infections and hospitalization rates in Singapore are not rising exponentially and that as of Tuesday, there are only 11 Covid-19 patients under intensive care and 50 needing ox...
Source: COVID-19 Crisis In Germany Oct 08, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Crisis In Germany: While the German government continues to downplay the seriousness of the current COVID-19 crisis, daily COVID-19 cases are going up with more than 174,112 new COVID-19 cases reported for just the 6th Of October along with 117 new COVID-19 deaths.
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Okt_2022/2022-10-07-en.pdf?__blob=publication...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 08, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by Greek researchers from Kapodistrian University of Athens, Evangelismos General Hospital-Greece and the Institute for Bioinnovation-Greece has found that the upregulation of CD55 complement regulator in distinct PBMC subpopulations of COVID-19 patients is associated with suppression of interferon responses.
The complement system, also known as complement...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research - Medical News Oct 08, 2022 6 months ago
A new study by researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine-USA and the J. Craig Venter Institute-USA has found that aside from the spike proteins, the various SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins also play key roles in pathogenesis and in COVID-19 disease severity with mutations in them contributing to different clinical presentations.
The continued COVID-19 surges with the emerge...
Source: Medical News -SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 08, 2022 6 months ago
A new study led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus utilizes histone mimicry to disrupt host epigenetic regulation in order to disarm host immune responses.
The study findings showed that the SARS-CoV-2 protein encoded by ORF8 (ORF8) functions as a histone mimic of the ARKS motifs in histone H3 to disrupt host cell...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Intestinal Ischemia Oct 07, 2022 6 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Intestinal Ischemia: Unknown to many, SARS-CoV-2 infections also causes intestinal ischemia in many and very often it is a sign of disease severity and also increases the risk of mortality.
Intestinal ischemia describes a variety of conditions that occur when blood flow to the intestines decreases. Ischemia can be due to a fully or partially blocked blood vessel, usually a...
Source: UK COVID-19 News Oct 07, 2022 6 months ago
UK COVID-19 News: The United Kingdom saw more than 224,3176 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours.
https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that about one in 65 people in England ie an estimated 857,400 individuals had COVID in the week ending 17 September, up from 766,500 people, or one in 70, the week before. An increase wa...
Source: Medical News - Viral Arthropathy - SARS-CoV-2 Oct 07, 2022 6 months ago
A study led by researchers from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville-USA and Hospital Sisters Health System-Illinois-USA has found that a high proportion of the population that has been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus will eventually develop viral arthropathy beside myalgia.
Viral arthropathy (viral arthritis) is swelling and irritation (inflammation) of one or more joints parti...
Source: Medical News -Cardiac Issues -Mild COVID Oct 06, 2022 6 months ago
Despite numerous warnings and even media coverage of studies regarding the long-term effects of COVID-19 on heart health, many people are still either not taking precautions to not get infected with the virus or to go for regular heart screenings after a SARS-CoV-2 infection even if it mild.
Considering that excess deaths related to COVID-19 involving heart failures is rising exponentiall...
Source: COVID-19 Research Oct 06, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Research: The research findings of a new vitro study by researchers from the University of Texas-Austin-USA using three-dimensional engineered vascular networks has validated the previous claims that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causes endothelial vascular dysfunction. The study findings not only have various implications on Long COVID but also about the usage of prophylactics and therap...
Early data based on clinical observations by attending physicians from hospitals along with genomic sequencing data in United Kingdom, France and Australia shows that the two new SARS-CoV-2 variants BQ.1.1 and BM.1.1 tend to attack the endothelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract more aggressively with many patients irrespective of age or existing comorbidities exhibiting disease severity.
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Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 XBB Sub-lineage Oct 05, 2022 6 months ago
Researchers from Peking University, Beijing in a new study have found that the new SARS-CoV-2 recombinant variant XBB is the most immune evasive strain to date that is almost comparable to the lethal SARS-CoV-1 strain that made its short debut in 2003.
The XBB sub-lineage is a recombinant variant of two highly transmissible and immune evasive sub-lineages BM.1.1.1(BA.2.75.3.1.1.1) and BJ....
Source: Medical News - Simian arteriviruses Oct 05, 2022 6 months ago
A new U.S. NIH sponsored study has shockingly found that a primate hemorrhagic fever-causing arterivirus from Africa has acquired the necessary mutations to cross over into the human species using the CD162 receptors for cellular entry.
It should be noted that the African continent is a hub for various emerging pathogens and diseases and in fact, one theory that has not been properly expl...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 05, 2022 6 months ago
Researchers from Tel Aviv University-Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Israel and the University of Pittsburgh-USA have in a new study found that the Omicron variant decreases the human host serologic response by reducing B-Cell antigenicity.
The study findings also indicates that the emerging Omicron sub-lineages are also following a similar trajectory of viral evolution and tha...
Source: Long COVID - Premature Aging Of Lungs Oct 04, 2022 6 months ago
Long COVID: A study by researchers from University of Oxford- United Kingdom involving a new computational technique has shockingly revealed that the lungs of Post COVID-19 individuals displayed premature aging of more than 15 years along with other lung dysfunctions!
To date, the long-term effects of COVID-19 on lung physiology remain poorly understood.
The study team utilized a n...
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