BREAKING:China confirms 9 dead from corona virus and 440 infected

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MrFrog

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    මාතර
    මේ වෙලාවෙ ලංකාවට කොරියාවෙන් , ඉතාලියෙන් එන උන්ගෙන් කීප දෙනෙකුට හරි ඕක ලොවෙත් තියෙනවා. ඒක නවත්තන්න බෑ. අපි බය වෙන්න ඕන පලවෙනි human to human transmission එක සිද්ද වුනොත් තමයි. ලංකාවේ දැන් 40C වගේ temperature එක යන හින්ද වයිරස් එකකටවත් ඉන්න බෑ මං හිතන්නෙ. :lol:
     

    imhotep

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    මේ වෙලාවෙ ලංකාවට කොරියාවෙන් , ඉතාලියෙන් එන උන්ගෙන් කීප දෙනෙකුට හරි ඕක ලොවෙත් තියෙනවා. ඒක නවත්තන්න බෑ. අපි බය වෙන්න ඕන පලවෙනි human to human transmission එක සිද්ද වුනොත් තමයි. ලංකාවේ දැන් 40C වගේ temperature එක යන හින්ද වයිරස් එකකටවත් ඉන්න බෑ මං හිතන්නෙ. :lol:

    You cannot assume or guess things. I don't think anyone has made a study on this Covid virus. But normally a Coronavirus is susceptible to temperature. A normal virus is made of nucleic acid, inside a protein shell called the capsid. A coronavirus has an external membrane outside the shell. This membrane is heat sensitive.

    So, in effect the survival of the virus itself declines with the increase of temperature - but not it's ability to infect.

    Studies with SARS have shown that it remains quite stable at 4 deg C, but lose its effectiveness in three days at 37 deg, and survives only for 15 mins at 70 degrees below zero.
    At 4 deg C , it was found that the SARS virus remained active for 28 days!
     

    NaiRobi

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    :lol:උඹට පිස්සුද?ඔය රටවල් දෙකම උන්ට අාර්ථික අතින් පාඩු කරන රටවල්..

    seriously what are you? :sorry: Are you simply referring to Apple Vs Samsung?
    Do you know one of the largest military exercises conducted between USA and SK annually?
     

    ROCCO-X

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    Pls wear a MASK
    Mainland China has confirmed 202 new cases, a drop from 573 the day before. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to over 80,000. https://cna.asia/2x1rn77

    Meanwhile, the death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy has risen to 34. Italian authorities say there are close to 1,700 cases of the coronavirus in the country: https://cna.asia/2I8EEwV
     

    imhotep

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    Recent Scientific Research on Covid-19

    If it interests anyone these are a few of the recent scientific findings...

    It's known that Covid-19 shares over 80 percent of its DNA with SARS virus... However, a team of Chinese researchers found that, unlike SARS though, the novel Coronavirus has a section of genes that are absent from the SARS genome. In fact, they bear resemblance to genes found in HIV and Ebola. These genes may encode for a different pathway targeting the protein furin on human cells, which is how HIV and Ebola attack.
    This could make Covid-19 up to 1,000 times better at binding to human cells than SARS.

    Note this is similar to what a team of Indian researchers found about a month ago. They stated "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag”, suggesting that some HIV genes may have actually leapt into Covid-19, making it more contagious and therefore dangerous.

    Another independent French study (peer reviewed) came to almost the same conclusions and also reported that The furin-like cleavage site in the S-protein of 2019-nCoV may have implications for the viral life cycle and pathogenicity of the Covid virus - and suggested that campaigns to develop anti-2019-nCoV therapeutics should include the evaluation of Furin inhibitors.

    Note: Drugs do exist which target the Furin enzyme — drugs previously used in HIV treatments - and that's possibly the reason why the HIV drugs had some effects on the infection.
     

    Pessimist

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    Recent Scientific Research on Covid-19

    If it interests anyone these are a few of the recent scientific findings...

    It's known that Covid-19 shares over 80 percent of its DNA with SARS virus... However, a team of Chinese researchers found that, unlike SARS though, the novel Coronavirus has a section of genes that are absent from the SARS genome. In fact, they bear resemblance to genes found in HIV and Ebola. These genes may encode for a different pathway targeting the protein furin on human cells, which is how HIV and Ebola attack.
    This could make Covid-19 up to 1,000 times better at binding to human cells than SARS.

    Note this is similar to what a team of Indian researchers found about a month ago. They stated "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag”, suggesting that some HIV genes may have actually leapt into Covid-19, making it more contagious and therefore dangerous.

    Another independent French study (peer reviewed) came to almost the same conclusions and also reported that The furin-like cleavage site in the S-protein of 2019-nCoV may have implications for the viral life cycle and pathogenicity of the Covid virus - and suggested that campaigns to develop anti-2019-nCoV therapeutics should include the evaluation of Furin inhibitors.

    Note: Drugs do exist which target the Furin enzyme — drugs previously used in HIV treatments - and that's possibly the reason why the HIV drugs had some effects on the infection.

    hi.
    can u post the papers or their dois :)
     

    imhotep

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    I will send you the French one..as it's published. also the Chinese one but the original is in Chinese. The Indian one was withdrawn to make some amendments and expected to be republished soon. But their core observations were correct.

    PS: I only present a brief summary of what's published. Not rumours or heresay on fakebook or from any other source. Though I have more insights on this virus from other unpublished sources, I generally do not post them, as they are not verified or not available to be posted on the Net. :)
     
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    The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 68 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan).


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    awjas2621

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    Latest Updates

    March 2


    • 9 new cases and 1 death in the United States
      1 new case in Oregon
      : a contact of the first case in Oregon, recovering at home.
      2 new cases (first) in Florida
      1 new case in Washington State
      : a man in his 40s hospitalized in critical condition in Kirkland.
      4 cases
      and 1 death in Washington State: a man in his 70s, in Kirkland, King County, with underlying health conditions.
      1 case
      (first) in New York
    • 476 new cases and 1 death in South Korea.
    • 202 new cases, 42 new deaths (all in Hubei) and 2,837 new discharges occurred in China on March 1, as reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) of China.
     
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