Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — What is this enemy? “I am actually shocked,” said Griffin, a specialist in infectious diseases at New York’s Columbia University Medical Center. Autopsies reveal “what the virus is actually doing” inside patient’s bodies, said Dr. Desiree Marshall, a pathologist at the University of Washington who recently examined the heart of a Seattle man who died from disease. “Every patient that I see, I think that could’ve been me,” said Dr. Stuart Moser, a cardiologist hospitalized in New York in March after he was infected. “It’s difficult because they have so many problems and there are so many patients,” Moser said, “and you just want to do the right thing -- give people the best chance to get better.” ____ In recent weeks, researchers have recruited 3,000 patients from around the world in a bid to solve a puzzling anomaly.

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Man tests positive for potentially fatal MERS-CoV virus in Abu Dhabi
1 year, 5 months ago

Man tests positive for potentially fatal MERS-CoV virus in Abu Dhabi

The Independent  

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One Case of MERS Coronavirus Reported in Abu Dhabi City near Oman Border
1 year, 5 months ago

One Case of MERS Coronavirus Reported in Abu Dhabi City near Oman Border

News 18  

A man tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in a city in Abu Dhabi on Monday, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The case was detected from the city of Al Ain in Abu Dhabi which lies on the Saudi Arabian border with Oman. MERS was first identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and the virus was …

Abu Dhabi reports MERS coronavirus case: All you need to know about Covid's new variant
1 year, 5 months ago

Abu Dhabi reports MERS coronavirus case: All you need to know about Covid's new variant

India TV News  

It is with great concern that the World Health Organization has reported a new case of MERS coronavirus in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The patient who has been diagnosed with MERS-CoV in Abu Dhabi is a 28-year-old man who had underlying health conditions and was hospitalised after developing symptoms of the virus. Since its detection, …

Trinity College research finds why COVID 19 is to hard to treat
3 years, 8 months ago

Trinity College research finds why COVID 19 is to hard to treat

India TV News  

Researchers at the Trinity College Dublin showed that a comprehensive review into what we know about Covid 19 and the way it functions suggests that the virus has a unique infectious profile, which explains why it can be so hard to treat and why some people experience a long struggle with the virus, and even after the virus is technically …

With swabs and grumpy camels, Kenya looks for the next virus
3 years, 8 months ago

With swabs and grumpy camels, Kenya looks for the next virus

Live Mint  

Kicking and grunting under the restraint of three men, the camel makes its displeasure known as Kenyan veterinarian Nelson Kipchirchir swirls a giant swab in the nostril of the grumpy dromedary. Isaac Mohamed, 57, a camel herder, releases camels from their enclosure at the International Livestock Research Institute ranch, where the camels are regularly tested for the Middle East Respiratory …

Extraordinary Patient Offers Surprising Clues To Origins Of Coronavirus Variants
3 years, 11 months ago

Extraordinary Patient Offers Surprising Clues To Origins Of Coronavirus Variants

NPR  

Extraordinary Patient Offers Surprising Clues To Origins Of Coronavirus Variants Back in the spring of last year, a 45-year-old man went to the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston because of a coronavirus infection. "He was readmitted to the hospital several times over the subsequent five months for recurrence of his COVID-19 infection and severe pneumonia," says infectious disease doctor …

Many U.S. health experts underestimated the coronavirus — until it was too late
4 years ago

Many U.S. health experts underestimated the coronavirus — until it was too late

LA Times  

A patient is rushed to intensive care to be intubated and placed on a ventilator at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. https://t.co/b8ZdEGIzyJ — Caitlin Rivers, PhD January 5, 2020 “If you cry wolf too often, people will never pay attention,” said epidemiologist Mark Wilson of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “I wouldn’t criticize people …

Inside Syria’s coronavirus crisis: Damascus patient describes outbreak ‘10 times worse’ than regime claims
4 years, 4 months ago

Inside Syria’s coronavirus crisis: Damascus patient describes outbreak ‘10 times worse’ than regime claims

The Independent  

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Know the enemy: Health experts think understanding the Coronavirus will help us defeat it
4 years, 5 months ago

Know the enemy: Health experts think understanding the Coronavirus will help us defeat it

Firstpost  

The coronavirus is invisible, but seemingly everywhere, requires close contact to spread, but reached around the globe faster than any pandemic in history. Like organisms, viruses evolve, searching for traits that will ensure survival, said Charles Marshall, a professor of palaeontology at the University of California and self-described “deep time evolutionary biologist.” “Coronaviruses fit into the standard evolutionary paradigm extremely …

Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus

India Today  

What is this enemy? Now, with more than 100,000 commercial flights a day ferrying tourists, business travelers and students around the globe, the new virus spread rapidly and virtually invisibly, said medical historian Mark Honigsbaum, author of "The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris." "I am actually shocked," said Griffin, a specialist in infectious diseases at …

Yemen's Coronavirus Catastrophe Is A Global Embarrassment
4 years, 6 months ago

Yemen's Coronavirus Catastrophe Is A Global Embarrassment

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In Yemen, the coronavirus pandemic is overwhelming hospitals and cemeteries. The Houthis’ opponents ― Yemen’s internationally recognized government, along with Saudi Arabia and the U.S. ― are failing to provide the level of needed aid or to halt bombings and a blockade of Houthi-controlled areas, causing inflation and mass hunger that makes many Yemenis especially vulnerable to …

What you need to know about coronavirus on Monday, May 4
4 years, 8 months ago

What you need to know about coronavirus on Monday, May 4

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in the May 4 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY Report: China “intentionally concealed” severity of virus The Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of the coronavirus from the international community while it stockpiled imports and decreased exports, a Department of Homeland Security report found, according to an administration …

Coronavirus update: Beyonce delivers message about US death rates, UAE moves to stop virus rumours
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus update: Beyonce delivers message about US death rates, UAE moves to stop virus rumours

ABC  

Pop superstar Beyonce has told millions of viewers during the One World: Together at Home concert that coronavirus is killing a disproportionately high number of black Americans. The United States is performing "very well" compared to other nation's dealing with the coronavirus health crisis, US President Donald Trump says. "The United States has produced a dramatically better health outcome than …

Here's how coronavirus has changed lives across the U.S.
4 years, 8 months ago

Here's how coronavirus has changed lives across the U.S.

LA Times  

In our series “Dispatches From the Pandemic,” we have featured the stories of dozens of people, many reaching out from quarantine. Here’s why my fellow doctors may judge me You might think that a doctor with a health history like mine would avoid the front line of a novel viral pandemic. Opinion Op-Ed: As a doctor on ‘MASH,’ Hawkeye showed …

Coronavirus: Comparing COVID-19, SARS and MERS
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Comparing COVID-19, SARS and MERS

Al Jazeera  

A comparison of COVID-19 data to similar recent diseases with global impact caused by the coronavirus. Here is a comparison of the information and data we have on COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, with similar recent coronavirus-related diseases. SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome, also caused by a coronavirus, was first reported in November 2002 in the Guangdong …

AP PHOTOS: A week of images from the coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

AP PHOTOS: A week of images from the coronavirus pandemic

Associated Press  

Cemetery workers wore protective clothing as they conducted a burial in Brazil, a field of freshly dug graves awaiting more corpses. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Kashmiri volunteer packs disposable protective suit to be distributed free among different hospitals in Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 3, 2020. Share Share Copy Link …

What Africa can teach the world about beating the coronavirus (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

What Africa can teach the world about beating the coronavirus (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Daniel Speckhard is president and CEO of Corus International, parent of international humanitarian organizations Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health. And the head of the World Health Organization has issued a stark warning: “Africa should wake up.” Daniel Speckhard Lutheran World Relief/IMA World Health The rise of Covid-19 comes as an outbreak of another deadly virus, Ebola, …

Coronavirus pandemic: Libya records first Covid-19 case as more curfews called in Mideast
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic: Libya records first Covid-19 case as more curfews called in Mideast

India Today  

Libya recorded its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, the UN-backed government announced, stoking concern that an outbreak could overwhelm the war-torn country's already weakened health care system. The International Monetary Fund meanwhile said that shortages in crucial medical supplies could drive up prices and inflict pain on the Mideast's poorest nations. Meanwhile in Egypt, Prime Minister …

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge
4 years, 9 months ago

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

Associated Press  

CAIRO — When Dr. Ismail al-Mansouri goes to work in Yemen’s capital, he puts on one of the hospital’s few pairs of medical gloves. People go home, they go out, walk around, eat in restaurants,” said Dr. Wejdan Sabri, an orthopedic doctor outside Libya’s capital, Tripoli. We do not have tests for patients we suspect.” The World Health Organization has …

Coronavirus: Dos and don’ts to contain the spread of Covid-19
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: Dos and don’ts to contain the spread of Covid-19

Hindustan Times  

The deadly coronavirus has spread rapidly across the globe and has infected more than 80,000 people in 60 countries. The coronavirus family of viruses includes the common cold and more serious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Statistics from China indicate that about two per cent of people infected with the new virus have …

Saudi Arabia halts entry to Mecca over fears of coronavirus outbreak; move comes just months ahead of annual hajj
4 years, 10 months ago

Saudi Arabia halts entry to Mecca over fears of coronavirus outbreak; move comes just months ahead of annual hajj

Firstpost  

Saudi Arabia halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move that came as West Asia has over 220 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. Dubai: Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just …

How to reduce Coronavirus infectants
4 years, 11 months ago

How to reduce Coronavirus infectants

India TV News  

Researchers have reviewed studies on the persistence of coronaviruses on surfaces in hospitals like door handles, call buttons, bedside tables, and bed frames, and have suggested ways of using disinfectants on these objects. "Under the circumstances, the best approach was to publish these verified scientific facts in advance, in order to make all information available at a glance," said Eike …

Coronavirus update: WHO urges 'no stigma' to be associated with novel coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus update: WHO urges 'no stigma' to be associated with novel coronavirus

India TV News  

Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization Health Emergencies Program, urged that no stigma should be associated with the fast-spreading novel coronavirus. Also speaking at the briefing, Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, voiced similar concern. Van Kerkhove said that the WHO has provided an interim name for the disease, calling it the …

The coronavirus from China is new, and that makes everything dicier
4 years, 11 months ago

The coronavirus from China is new, and that makes everything dicier

LA Times  

The one at the heart of the outbreak in China is brand new, which complicates efforts to contain it. Here’s why: Prevention Vaccines take years to develop, and since this virus is brand new, researchers will have to start from square one. Once the virus’ genome was sequenced and released, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other …

Second U.S. coronavirus case is confirmed in Chicago
4 years, 11 months ago

Second U.S. coronavirus case is confirmed in Chicago

LA Times  

In Wuhan, China, this week, a staff member wears protective gear to move biological waste outside the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some infected with a new virus are being treated. A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China, health officials announced Friday. The patient is doing well and remains hospitalized …

Everything You Should Know About Coronavirus, Which Just Hit The U.S.
4 years, 11 months ago

Everything You Should Know About Coronavirus, Which Just Hit The U.S.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Update: The article below was published, as the timestamp above indicates, in late January 2020. Though health officials are still learning about the virus, it currently looks unlikely that we’ll see an outbreak here in the U.S. That said, it’s good to be armed with information. While there’s no shot for it yet, Schaffner said, “our own …

How Does The Novel Coronavirus Compare With MERS, SARS And The Common Cold?
4 years, 11 months ago

How Does The Novel Coronavirus Compare With MERS, SARS And The Common Cold?

NPR  

How Does The Novel Coronavirus Compare With MERS, SARS And The Common Cold? Others can cause the relatively mild common cold. "Whenever a virus enters the human population from animals, we don't know its full potential at that time," says David Heymann, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "MERS, however, doesn't appear to be so …

WHO says new China coronavirus could spread worldwide, warns hospitals
4 years, 11 months ago

WHO says new China coronavirus could spread worldwide, warns hospitals

India Today  

There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. In all, 41 cases of pneumonia have been reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which preliminary lab tests cited by state media showed could be from …

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