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Monkeypox cases have now risen to 497 cases spanning 28 countries that are not endemic for the virus. Mexico is the latest country to detect a case of monkeypox. The United Kingdom and Spain remains the two hotspot countries with each having 107 confirmed cases so far.
Monkeypox manifestations in white British males.
Countries where monkeypox has been detected outside the African continen...
Source: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) May 29, 2022 6 months ago
Unknown to many who are just focused on the COVID-19 pandemic or the latest Monkeypox surge that started among irresponsible gay men indulging in unprotected frivolous sex orgies that has now spread to the general population (the disease not the sex orgies please!) or the new strains of Ebola emergence in the African continent and new strains of Polio debuting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a ...
Monkeypox cases have grown to 448 cases spanning 25 countries in the last few hours. Another 17 probable cases are pending confirmatory test results while another 1086 individuals suspected to have contracted the disease are being investigated.
The United Kingdom leads the race with 107 human primates confirmed being infected with the monkeypox virus.
The other countries in which c...
Source: While SARS-CoV-2 Surges, New Strains Of Pathogens Responsible for Ebola, Monkey Pox, Legionnaires Disease, Lyme Disease, Etc Are Emerging! - N May 27, 2022 6 months ago
Despite attempts by those controlling the COVID-19 narrative to downplay the COVID-19 crisis, new SARS-CoV-2 surges are being witnessed in many countries driven by the new BA.2.12.1 subvariants and its third generation variants, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants and its emerging subvariants, and also by new Delta subvariants.
Studies are already showing that these new variants are more immune ev...
Source: Monkeypox - Medical News May 26, 2022 6 months ago
When Thailand Medical News reported that the Monkeypox virus that is currently spreading around the world is unlike the two original strains that were first identified in the African continent, and that it contains new mutations and is a new strain, https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-monkeypox-spreading-fast-globally-high-alert-needed-as-the-new-strain-is-most-likely-airborne-and-also-...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID May 25, 2022 6 months ago
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections also causes inflammatory bone loss leading to Long COVID skeletal health issues!
A past multi-center study showed that COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care had significantly lower bone mineral density (BMD) tha...
Dear Readers, since November 2021, Thailand Medical News has been holding back a lot of new emerging data on the SARs-CoV-2 virus and its variants, research on new prophylactics and therapeutics for COVID-19 and also for Long COVID along with data on emerging health conditions associated with COVID-19. Not only have we withheld covering certain published data, but we have also collaborated with lo...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Immunology May 24, 2022 6 months ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Yale University School of Medicine-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins ORF7a and ORF3a downregulates MHC-I expression aiding in immune evasion and possible immune dysfunction!
MHC class I molecules (MHC-I) are cell surface recognition elements expressed on virtually all somatic cells. These molecules sample peptides generat...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 BA.2 Subvariants May 23, 2022 6 months ago
Emerging worrisome data is showing that numerous BA.2 subvariants are emerging all over the United States spotting mutations on the main protease (MPro) sites which are reducing the antiviral effectiveness of the active pharmaceutical ingredient found in Paxlovid ie nirmatrelvir.
These NSP5 or MPro mutations include: H164N, G15S, T135I.
Genomic sequencing data is showing that a num...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2-Pediatric Hepatitis May 22, 2022 7 months ago
SARS-CoV-2-Pediatric Hepatitis: A new study by researchers from the the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai-China and the Guangzhou Laboratory-China indicates that the current caseloads of children developing hepatitis could be due to past or present infections with particular variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that contains the A1061S mutation on the ORF1ab proteins which is able to...
Source: Latest Monkeypox News May 21, 2022 7 months ago
As of the last few hours, the number of monkeypox confirmed infections has reached 150 cases covering 15 countries. Countries where cases have been confirmed includes: UK (21 cases), Portugal (34 cases), Spain (49 cases), Canada (26 cases), Italy (3 cases), Belgium (3 cases), Australia (2 cases), Netherlands (3 cases), France (1 case), USA (2 cases), Germany (2 cases), Sweden (I case), Israel (I c...
Source: Medical News - Androgens - COVID-19 Severity May 21, 2022 7 months ago
Researchers from Dr DY Patil Medical College-India, University of Rome-Italy, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas-USA and the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University-Germany have in a new meta-analysis study explored the link between androgens and COVID-19 severity and found that the effects of androgens on COVID-19 severity appear to be partly, at least, mediated by the and...
A surprising new study led by researchers from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke- U.S. National Institutes of Health-Bethesda that also involved medical scientists from Thomas Jefferson University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University has found that a variety of neuropathic...
Source: Medical News - NeuroCOVID May 19, 2022 7 months ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Neuroscience at Thomas Jefferson University- Philadelphia, East Carolina University and New York University has discovered findings that adds to the growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections, irrespective of the nature of the infection ie whether asymptomatic or symptomatic, mild, moderate or severe, will lead to increased risk of bra...
Source: Medical News - Monkeypox May 19, 2022 7 months ago
Health authorities around the world need to be on high alert as monkeypox has now been found to be spreading fast around the world with preliminary data suggesting that not only is the virus airborne and also transmissible via sexual contacts but the strains that are circulating around are new variants that contain mutations that were never seen in the initial strains detected in 1970 i...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Viagra - Sildenafil May 18, 2022 7 months ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from the University College London-UK, Imperial College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital-UK has found that the drug Viagra can be used to treat COVID-19 related pneumonitis and moderate to severe ARDS.
Sildenafil, sold under the brand name Viagra among others, is a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hyperte...
Source: Cannabidiol (CBD)-SARS-CoV-2 May 18, 2022 7 months ago
Cannabidiol (CBD)-SARS-CoV-2: Researchers from the University of Waterloo-Canada have found in a new study that Cannabidiol or CBD primes innate immune system, increasing responsive readiness to SARS-CoV-2 infection without activating apoptosis! The discovery could mean that Cannabidiol or CBD could be deployed as a prophylactic towards SARS-CoV-2 infections pending more detailed studies.
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Source: U.S. COVID-19 News May 17, 2022 7 months ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: Dr Ashish Jha, MD, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator told media last week that the United States is increasingly becoming vulnerable to the new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants if Congress doesn't approve new funding for more updated vaccines and new treatments, the coming fall and winter could be catastrophic.
Dr Jha said booster doses will be necessary fo...
Despite calls for the BA.2 variant and its sublineages to be conferred a different name altogether so as to ensure that all therapeutics and drugs along with treatment protocols that are being studied or developed are approached from a unique and specific approach, the stupid authorities concerned are still lumping it as an Omicron variant. The same goes for the newly emerging BA.4 and BA.5 varian...
Source: Pediatric COVID-19 May 16, 2022 7 months ago
Pediatric COVID-19: A new study conducted by researchers from the Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, Atlanta-USA has found that most pediatric patients develop croup upon being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants.
Croup is an infection of the upper airway, which obstructs breathing and causes a characteristic barking cough. The...
Source: North Korea COVID-19 News May 15, 2022 7 months ago
North Korea COVID-19 News: Health authorities in North Korea on Sunday morning have confirmed another 296,180 new SARS-CoV-2 infections and 15 deaths In the last 24 hours.
The additional deaths took the country's reported fever-related fatalities to 42.
The official Korean Central News Agency also reported that with the new 296,180 cases, the reported toll is now roughly 820,62...
Source: Medical News - Recombinant Variant May 15, 2022 7 months ago
Already there are so many new recombinant variants emerging as a result of Delta and Omicron coinfections and also from the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 coinfections.
A dynamical nomenclature system for the designation of new lineages was created by the Pango network committee, in which recombinants start with an X letter. Currently, there are 3 Delta/Omicron (XD, XF, XS) and 13 Omicron BA.1*/BA...
Source : Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 And Cancers May 14, 2022 7 months ago
New alarming data has emerged from a study conducted by researchers from United Arab Emirates University, Khalifa Center for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-UAE and Qatar University that helps explain why many cancer patients upon contracting the SARS-CoV-2 tend to have high risk of disease severity and increased mortality. These study findings also help explain why many Post COVID individua...
Source: Medical News - Host Genetic Variants May 13, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna-Austria have found that genetic variants of the host CD16a antibody receptor are associated with the risk of severe COVID-19.
It was already long suspected that host genetic variants in activating natural killer (NK) cell receptors may contribute to differences in severity of COVID-19. NK cell-mediated antibody-mediated cell...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID May 12, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by researchers from the Haemostasis Research Unit at the University College London-UK and the University College London Hospital-UK has found that most Post COVID individuals have an abnormal blood clotting condition due to an elevated Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) antigen (Ag): ADAMTS13 ratio that generally impairs exercise capacity in most of these individuals.
Long-COVID or P...
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the University of Toronto-Canada, Sunnybrook Research Institute-Canada, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education-Canada and McMaster University-Canada have found that majority of non-hospitalized COVID-19 infected individuals have decreased cerebral blood flow that can contribute to various clinical manifestations and Long COVID issues.
To dat...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2-Brains May 10, 2022 7 months ago
A new autopsy study involving the brains of 36 deceased COVID-19 patients by researchers from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-USA, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System-USA and Marshfield Clinic Health System-USA has alarmingly found that SARS-CoV-2 infections causes reactive and acute inflammatory CNS microvasculopathy in the brains of those infected!
The study findi...
Source: Thailand Medical - SARS-CoV-2-T-Cells May 09, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by Indian researchers from the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute-India, Reginal Centre Biotechnology -India and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes thymic dysregulation and thymic atrophy that results in lymphopenia and peripheral T cell receptor repertoire changes!
It has already been known that most...
Source: Thailand Medical -Molnupiravir-COVID-19 May 08, 2022 7 months ago
Despite growing reports by many physicians around the world about a variety of adverse effects from patients who are treated with molnupiravir, the mutagenic drug that was approved by the non-credible U.S. FDA to treat COVID-19 and as usual was adopted by the stupid health authorities from various countries that emulates everything that America does, the drug is still being used by many stupid doc...
Source: Thailand Medical - Monkey Pox - UK May 07, 2022 7 months ago
Health authorities in UK have confirmed that an individual in England has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection monkeypox. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-england
It was reported that the infected individual had recently travelled from Nigeria, which is where they are believed to have contracted the infection, before travelling to the UK.
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Source: Thailand Medical May 07, 2022 7 months ago
Thailand Medical News is presenting another hypothesis that warrants urgent research as it can explain as to why certain variants are affecting certain countries and populations worse that where it originally came from and also justifies the need for border lockdowns and urgent stoppage of international travel.
There are many factors that affects the evolution and mutational aspects of th...
Source: Medical News - miRNAS-SARS-CoV-2 May 06, 2022 7 months ago
New concerning findings have been discovered from a new study conducted by Chinese researchers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, along with experts from Wuhan University, in which it was found that SARS-CoV-2 causes dysregulation of host miRNAs and also produces novel miRNAs, resulting in varying clinical manifestations! The study findings also have numerous ne...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Pancreas May 05, 2022 7 months ago
Italian researchers from Universitá di Milano, have in a new study found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to directly and also indirectly affect the pancreatic islets of the host and cause pancreatic inflammation that can lead to Post COVID Hyperglycemia and other health conditions and issues!
It is interesting that ever since the Omicron wave, incidences of not only hypergl...
Source: Thailand Medical -Monoclonal Drugs And New BA.2.11, BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 variants. May 04, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by Japanese researchers from The University of Tokyo and Kobe University have found that the new SARS-CoV-2 variants like BA.2.11. BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 are exhibiting greater resistance to existing monoclonal drugs!
To date, the Omicron BA.2 variant is the most dominant variant in the world.
However, it is fast being superseded by new emerging variants and subvarian...
Source: Thailand Medical May 04, 2022 7 months ago
A new study lead by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Cente and also Georgetown University has found that the Harvard And US FDA Study finds that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 sublineage and all its emerging subvariants to be ...
Source: China COVID-19 News May 04, 2022 7 months ago
China COVID-19 News: While the Western mainstream media is talking only about the lockdowns in Shanghai and the partial lockdowns now in Beijing that are affecting almost 185 million people, latest reports have indicated that the provinces of Henan and Zhejiang are already preparing for partial lockdowns if not full lockdowns as caseloads are also increasing in these provinces. Local Chinese media...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research May 03, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by researchers from Truveta Inc, a clinical data analytics company based in Washington-USA has found that fully vaccinated individuals with existing comorbidities such as diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), chronic lung disease, or those with immunocompromising conditions have increased risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infections and also hospitalization!
The study team wante...
Source: Thailand Medical May 02, 2022 7 months ago
Thailand Medical News: In the land of scams and lies, the local medical ‘experts’ today in various mainstream media said that daily COVID-19 infections have plummeted in the country to below the 10,000 mark with only 9,331 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. They also said that the daily death rates have also decreased to below 100 with only 84 COVID-19 related deaths reporte...
Source: Gastric Reflux - COVID-19 May 01, 2022 7 months ago
Gastric Reflux - COVID-19: In the last 18 months, physicians and also entities involved with gastric reflux education and care for patients in the UK and the United States have been struck by the number of patients that who describe the sudden onset of reflux type symptoms.
Besides the typical heartburn esophageal type symptoms, other more commonly symptoms reported included laryngo-phary...
Emerging data from South Africa and also from the United States is showing that the new SARS-CoV-2 BA.2 subvariant ie BA.2.12.1 and the new BA.4 variant has a RO number of 15, implying that it is just as contagious as measles if not more.
Both variants are now spreading globally but the BA.2.12.1 variant is fast becoming the dominant variant in the United States and is expected to superse...
Source: Medical News - Hepatitis - COVID-19 Apr 29, 2022 7 months ago
A new study led by researchers from the University of Freiburg-Germany has found that current COVID-19 shots can induce CD8 T-cell dominant hepatitis!
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Source: Medical News - Cytokine Storms Apr 29, 2022 7 months ago
A new study by researchers from Yale University-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus directly infects certain immune cells that leads to inflammasome activation that ultimately contributes to the hyperinflammatory state of the lungs.
Typically, severe COVID-19 is characterized by persistent lung inflammation, inflammatory cytokine production, viral RNA, and sustained interferon (...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, India has found that the asthma drug Montelukast (Singulair) can block the SARS-CoV-2 non-structural protein 1 (Nsp1,) which in turn results in the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 replication, showing it prowess as potential COVID-19 drug!
Montelukast is a drug used in the maintenance treatment of asthma that is marketed under the trade n...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals Apr 27, 2022 7 months ago
Many are unaware that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus since the debut of the Omicron variant, has been evolving at a very high rate and spawning many new variants, subvariants and even third generation subvariants that not only have mutations on the Spike proteins but also on the Nucleocapsid proteins, and on other structural and non-structural proteins of the viral genome. In some cases, the number of...
Source: China Medical News Apr 27, 2022 7 months ago
China Medical News: Health authorities in China have confirmed in the last 24 hours the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu. The patient was identified as a four-year boy from Central Henan province. Despite authorities say there is a low risk of widespread transmission among individuals, a group of 6 other individuals are also being investigated as possibly having contracted th...
Source: Medical News - Platelet Activation By SARS-CoV-2 Apr 26, 2022 7 months ago
New study findings by Canadian researchers from Université Laval-Quebec, Canada CHU de Quebec, Canada University of Ottawa, Ottawa and National Research Council Canada are helping to explain the mechanisms promoting platelet activation by the SARS-CoV-2 resulting in thrombosis and coagulation…hallmarks of COVID-19. The study that was also supported by scientist from the University of...
Long COVID: A new study by researchers from the PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group which is a consortium of over 168 researchers focused on Long COVID research and which is led by the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester-UK has found that Long COVID is more predominant than though with only 1 out of 4 hospitalized COVID-19 patients...
Source: Medical News -COVID-19 Apr 24, 2022 7 months ago
Editorial: Many around the world are rejoicing about the recent lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and measures and some that have been so distressed by the happenings in the last two years and the economic hardships that it has caused them, have simply psychologically decided to live in denial and simply not want to hear, talk or think about anything COVID-19 related. Their responses are understand...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Minocycline Apr 23, 2022 7 months ago
SARS-CoV-2-Minocycline: News has emerged that China is now using the antibiotic drug Minocycline to treat COVID-19 cases in various cities across China including Shanghai despite lack of published clinical trial studies showing its efficacy.
Chinese researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College along with scientists from the Inner Mongolia Medical Un...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Research Apr 22, 2022 8 months ago
A new study by researchers from the University of South Carolina-USA and Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan-China has found that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus typically impairs the lipid metabolic and autophagic pathways in human host cells, leading to increased susceptibility to lipotoxicity via ferroptosis, which often results in the damage of cells and ti...
Source: Medical News - Natural Immunity Apr 21, 2022 8 months ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago-Illinois-USA and Providence Research Network-Washington-USA, which is part of one of the largest Healthcare groups in America called Providence, has found that those who never had received any COVID-19 jabs but contracted SARS-CoV-2 and developed natural immunity, tended to have a longer window of protection against another SARS-CoV-2...
We at Thailand Medical News think that urgent studies are needed by independent and credible researchers with regards to Pfizer’s Paxlovid as there are many now many unpublished case reports by both physicians and also patients reporting anomalies when the so-called antiviral drug is used to treat COVID-19 patients.
One common occurrence being reported is that many when tested posit...
Source: Long COVID - Muscle Weakness And Myalgia Apr 19, 2022 8 months ago
A new study by researchers from State University of Para, Belém-Brazil has found that the conditions of fatigue, muscle weakness, myalgia, and decline in physical and functional performance typically manifested in Long COVID is due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus using the host cellular machinery of the muscle cells for replication, which causes downregulation of cellular muscle functions, resultin...
A new international study conducted by researchers from COVID-19 Cumulative Infection Collaborators which comprises of more than 110 scientists from over 27 different research entities and universities around the world has shockingly found that that from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 till about the mid of November 2021, more than 3.39 Billion individuals have been infected and in...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 -Cancers Apr 17, 2022 8 months ago
More worrisome data has emerged from a new study led by researchers from the University of Vermont, Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the University of Vermont Medical Center that indicates more possible long-term medical conditions arising in Long COVID including various cancers! The study that also involved medical scientists from Duke University, New York University and Icahn School of Medicine...
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