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2020-03-09 Science & Technology

Israeli Researchers Announce Breakthrough in Coronavirus Treatment, Arthritis Drug May Also Help

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 בני ישראל יהיו חכמים!

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-03-09 01:17|| 2020-03-09 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-09 01:23|| 2020-03-09 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 A treatment had been discovered which cured the birds infected with coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-09 02:45|| 2020-03-09 02:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel insists on self-quarantine for arrivals from New York, California and Washington in effort to curb coronavirus outbreak

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-09 03:10|| 2020-03-09 03:10|| Front Page Top

#5 The treatment we developed for birds is given orally, and the treatment we are developing for humans will also be given orally

So when can we expect them to start sending us chicken feed?

Posted by gorb 2020-03-09 07:40|| 2020-03-09 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Make sure you test it in Palestine, Iraq and Iran... if they let you. /sarc

Posted by AlanC 2020-03-09 08:40|| 2020-03-09 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 ... on the birds?

Posted by Lex 2020-03-09 08:52|| 2020-03-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 ... on the birds?

All 18 sexual denominations.
Not just the birds.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-09 14:53|| 2020-03-09 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Made me think of benadryl for some reason.
W.

However, it is reasonable and plausible to say cytokine dysregulation might be involved in some virulent influenza infections. In desperation, clinicians have treated patients with potent anti-inflammatory drugs, usually steroids. There is no evidence that this helps. A “cytokine storm” of a more limited nature is sometimes seen in cancer chemotherapy patients, where it is treated in its earliest stages by iv. benadryl and steroids, with some success. However in these cases, there is no infectious agent involved; even if steroids worked for influenza-induced cytokine storm, they cause a general downshift of the immune system which might allow the virus to run rampant and kill the patient via ordinary viral pneumonia. In ordinary infection-related sepsis, steroids are shown to slightly increase mortality (Crit Care Med. 1995 Aug;23(8):1430–9.) This is but one of the complicating considerations that clinicians will have to navigate during an outbreak. An isolated study showed that in children with central nervous system (brain) symptoms—an early sign of cytokine storm—due to (human, not H5N1) influenza infection, mild and controlled reduction in body core temperature (hypothermia) seems to reduce damage to brain cells as well as reducing the progression to a full-blown cytokine storm and multi-organ failure. (Pediatrics International Volume 42 Issue 2 Page 197 - April 2000.)

Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-09 19:29|| 2020-03-09 19:29|| Front Page Top

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