From March 8, 2009 article: Two highly lethal viruses that have emerged in recent outbreaks are susceptible to chloroquine, an established drug used to prevent and treat malaria, according to a new basic science study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Journal of Virology.* The two henipaviruses that are the subject of the […]
Selenium Supplements May Contribute To Reduced HIV Viral Load
Taking daily selenium supplements appears to increase the level of the essential mineral in the blood and may suppress the progression of viral load in patients with HIV infection, according to an article in the January 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) have given […]
Selenium Deficiency Causes Flu Virus To Mutate Into More Dangerous Forms
Influenza virus that has been passed through mice deficient in the trace nutrient selenium mutates and emerges from the mice more virulent than before, a new study shows. While the research was limited to rodents, it’s likely that something similar happens in humans deficient in selenium and, possibly, in other nutrients, University of North Carolina […]
Vitamin C Works for Sepsis. Will It Work for Coronavirus?
According to the most comprehensive global analysis1,2,3 done to date, sepsis is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide each year, killing 11 million out of 56 million people in 2017 alone. The researchers call the finding “alarming,” as their updated figures are double that of previous estimates. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition triggered by a […]
Coronavirus found to have up to 24-day incubation period; CDC releasing Wuhan evacuees in Texas, Nebraska and California after just 14 days
The CDC has already flown hundreds of American evacuees from Wuhan, China to various cities across the United States, including San Antonio, Texas and Omaha, Nebraska. There, evacuees are being quarantined for 14 days, after which they will be released to return to their homes. This 14-day quarantine is based on an assumption that this […]
Did The Simpsons Predict The Coronavirus?
Did The Simpsons predict the coronavirus? Fans claim the storyline about flu outbreak spreading from Japan to the US bears eerie similarities to deadly outbreak. In the episode from 1993 a virus called Osaka Flu spreads through Springfield. Scenes show juicers being packed into boxes as sick workers cough over them. There are similarities between […]
WHO underestimates the spread of the Coronavirus
The coronavirus probably has a stronger ability to spread than the World Health Organization has estimated so far. This according to a review of previous studies of the coronavirus’ transmissibility performed not least by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden. “Our review shows that the coronavirus is at least as transmissible as the SARS virus. […]
A Virus Called Wuhan-400 Was Predicted In 1981 US Novel
In the 1981 novel, “The Eyes of the Darkness,” it tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons program. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of writer as unwitting prophet? In The Eyes of […]
Vitamin C And Its Application To The Treatment of nCoV Coronavirus
How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases Most deaths from coronavirus are caused by pneumonia. Vitamin C has been known, for over 80 years, to greatly benefit pneumonia patients. In 1936 Gander and Niederberger found that vitamin C lowered fever and reduced pain in pneumonia patients. Also in 1936, Hochwald […]
Early spread of coronavirus extends far beyond China’s quarantine zone
Infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and other institutions in Hong Kong, mainland China and France have concluded there is a high probability that the deadly Wuhan coronavirus spread beyond Wuhan and other quarantined cities before Chinese officials were able to put a quarantine in place. At least 128 cities in […]