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Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Clofoctol  May 30, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from the University of Lille-France, the Institut Pasteur de Lille-France, the Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille-France, CNRS, INSERM, and CHU Lille0France has found that the existing antibiotic Clofoctol could be repurposed to treat COVID-19. Clofoctol is a bacteriostatic antibiotic. It is used in the treatment of respiratory tract and ear, nos...
SourceL Monkeypox News  May 30, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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 ...
Source: Monkeypox News  May 28, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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...
Source: Medical News  May 25, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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...
Source: Medical News  May 20, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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.  ...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News  May 17, 2022  2 years 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...
Source: BA.2 Variant  May 17, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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...
Source: NeuroCOVID  May 11, 2022  2 years ago
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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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  2 years 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.   ...
Source: Thailand Medical  May 07, 2022  2 years 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...