Breaking: Deadly And Rare Fungal Infection After Covid Infection

 

A growing number of current and recovered COVID-19 patients in India are contracting a deadly and rare fungal infection, doctors told AFP Monday as the vast nation battles to contain a massive outbreak of virus cases.

On Monday, India reported 370,000 coronavirus infections, bringing the total to 22.7 million cases, with more than 3,700 new deaths.

Experts said the actual number of cases and fatalities could be much higher.

Mucormycosis, dubbed “black fungus” by doctors in India, is usually most aggressive in patients whose immune systems are weakened by other infections.

Medical experts said they had seen a rise in cases in India in recent weeks, while the health ministry on Sunday released an advisory on how to treat the infection.

“The cases of mucormycosis infection in Covid-19 patients post-recovery is nearly four to five times than those reported before the pandemic,” Ahmedabad-based infectious diseases specialist Atul Patel, a member of the state’s COVID-19 taskforce, told AFP.

In the western state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial hub Mumbai, up to 300 cases have been detected, said Khusrav Bajan, a consultant at Mumbai’s P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and a member of the state’s COVID-19 Task Force.

At least another 300 cases have been reported so far in four cities in Gujarat, including its largest Ahmedabad, according to data from state-run hospitals.

The western state ordered government hospitals to set up separate treatment wards for patients infected with “black fungus” amid the rise in cases.

“Mucormycosis — if uncared for — may turn fatal,” the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), the scientific agency leading the government’s response, said in a treatment chart released on Twitter.

COVID-19 sufferers are more susceptible to contracting the fungal infection. This includes those with uncontrolled diabetes, those who used steroids during their virus treatment, and those who had prolonged stays in hospital ICUs, the ICMR added.

Treatment involves surgically removing all dead and infected tissue and administering a course of anti-fungal therapy.

But Yogesh Dabholkar, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Mumbai’s DY Patil Hospital, told AFP that the drugs used to treat those infected with the fungus are very expensive.

One of the treatment drugs was also running short in government hospitals due to the sudden spike, he added.

“The mortality rate is very high… Even the few that recover, only recover with extensive and aggressive surgery,” Bajan said.

“This is a fast-moving infection. It can grow within two weeks… It’s a Catch-22, coming out of a virus and getting into a fungal infection. It’s really bad.”

Hope Singapore has not imported the black fungus disease from India yet.

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China should not tolerate interference in its domestic affair

WELLINGTON: New Zealand wants a more mature relationship with China that goes beyond trade ties and gives room for disagreement, particularly on issues of human rights, the Pacific nation's foreign minister said on Friday (May 7).

Nanaia Mahuta's comments come after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this week that differences with its top trading partner were getting harder to reconcile, and the country's parliament unanimously declared human rights abuses were taking place against Uyghur people in China's Xinjiang region, angering Beijing.

"It's important for us to ensure we are respectful, consistent and predictable in the way we convey issues we agree on, but also on issues we don't agree on. And it's part of our maturing relationship," Mahuta said in an interview with Reuters.  Reuters

The above is another silly case of interference with China's domestic affairs by a little Anglo Saxon country, New Zealand. China must stop such nonsense once and for all. Just because these trouble making country that treat China as an enemy and alleged that there is human rights abuse in Xinjiang so there must be and they have a right to comment about it and to meddle with China's domestic affairs. The white New Zealanders also have a record of genocide against the native Maoris.

When is China going to tell these Anglo Saxon murderers and land grabbers to go to hell and mind their own business? If they want to trade and have good relations they are welcome. Once they mention anything about human rights or China's domestic affairs, there shall be no more talk.  Just send them home. There is no need to talk to trouble makers and worse, murderers that killed the natives and stole their land and thinking they are angles and good enough to talk about human rights abuses.

China has no need to want to have good relations with such hypocritical people that are still sitting on the land that don't belong to them but to the Maoris. Alleging human rights abuses and meddling with the domestic affairs of China are unfriendly acts and not welcome. China should make it a known policy to the trouble making countries, human rights is a taboo topic. Not welcome and would be sent packing.

Cyberattack! USA Held To Ransom!

The US's Colonial Pipeline in Georgia was attacked by a ransomware on Friday (7 May). It is the country's largest fuel pipeline that supplies 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel - about 2.5 million barrels a day.

It was completely knocked offline by a cyber-criminal gang and until Sunday it is still down.

President Biden declared a state of emergency. The state of emergency, in accordance with the Jones Act, allows fuel to be transported by roads, rails, rivers and sea.

Fuel prices are expected to rise today by at least 3%.

The impact will be far worse if it goes on for much longer.

It is confirmed that the ransomware attack was caused by a cyber-criminal gang called Dark Side, who infiltrated Colonial's network on Thursday and took almost 100 GB of data.

After seizing the data, the hackers locked the data on some computers and servers, and on Friday demanded a ransom. If it is not paid, they will leak the data onto the Internet.

The US, being the only super-criminal state in the world is being held for ransom by a small gang of cyber-cracks. What a joke!

SSO

Covid19 - Evil, selfish and lying Americans

U.S. wants COVID vaccine patent waiver to benefit world, not boost China biotech

By Andrea Shalal, Carl O'Donnell and David Lawder

(Reuters) - The Biden administration is examining ways to ensure that a waiver of COVID-19 vaccine patents to aid poor countries will not hand sensitive U.S. biopharmaceutical technology to China and Russia, responding to a chorus of concerns, U.S. and industry officials say.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday backed the U.S. entering negotiations at the World Trade Organization for the waiver of intellectual property rights as a means to boost vaccine supplies by allowing poorer countries to make their own.

So far, vaccines have gone overwhelmingly to richer nations, which scooped up contracts for them earlier this year. [L1N2KP178] COVID-19 infection rates in wealthy countries have dropped as vaccination rates increased this year, but infections are still rising in 36 countries, with India's daily cases skyrocketing to nearly 400,000 a day....

Many companies and now some U.S. officials fear the move would allow China to leapfrog years of research and erode the U.S. advantage in biopharmaceuticals. Yahoo News

The above said one thing, the evil Americans are hoarding on to the vaccines and refused to share with the rest of the world. Only after they have fully vaccinated their own people would they sell their vaccines at a very high profit to the rest of the world.

Till today, the Americans are not exporting any of the vaccines produced in the USA, at most 5% to their close allies. Even when India is now a hell house, they claimed to want to send aid to the tune of $100m worth but sent only a fraction of what they broadcast to the world.

And to keep on to their lies, they conveniently raised the red herring of China. It is because of China that they would not share the formula. What shit! China has many vaccines in production, does not need the American formula.  China also has its own mRNA vaccines. What stupid lies to con the world? For their own selfish and evil reasons, the Americans would continue to keep the vaccines to themselves and letting more people around the world die while claiming they want to help the people of the world.

In the mean time Chinese vaccines are all over the world, especially in poorer countries at very low prices and saving millions and millions of lives. Without the Chinese vaccines many of the poorer countries would be in deep shit like in India and the USA, Brazil and Britain.

The rest of the world can wait long ling for the American vaccines and when available, paying for an arm or a leg. This is the true nature of the evil Americans, so 'caring and generous'.

While the white men are pretending to be serious in wanting to share their vaccines with the poorer countries, while they continue to bicker in their political show, there are so many vaccines from China and Russia that are available immediately but not approved by them for use to save lives.  By the time the white men have finished their bickering, there would be no need for their vaccines. Those millions that needed not die would have been dead and the pandemic could be over.

Until today, despite the American loudspeaker blaring that they would help the rest of the world and sharing their vaccines for more than a year , the Americans have not share a single dose of their vaccines with poorer countries. They and the Brits are still hoarding all the vaccines they produced, not sharing.

Now why is Biden talking about wanting to waive but not waiving the copyrights of their vaccines, not sharing their formula for fear of leaking it to the Chinese, why this double talk? The truth, their vaccines have increasingly been proven to be ineffective, though they are not admitting it. 

The main reason, listen to this, is that they want the formula of Chinese vaccines.  For waiving the rights to their vaccines, the condition is for China to waive its rights and to share the formula with the Americans. They knew that the Chinese vaccines are effective and working, but not theirs, and desperately wanted to get hold of Chinese vaccines. Hear that, this is the real reason behind this change of agenda.

This is another big white lie.

COVID-19 On The March In Singapore Again?

 
A girl student from Victoria Junior College (that has many foreign students on scholarship paid by Singaporeans' money) has been infected by COVID-19 virus, possibly the latest variant from India. As a result, 103 people have to be quarantined - 95 students and 8 staff.

What about those people who took the same buses or MRT trains with her, while she was infectious but not showing symptoms?

What about the places she has visited? How many people at those places have been infected by her?

Also, Changi Airport has discovered 3 more workers/staff got infected by COVID-19 Indian variant.

Are these isolated cases? Or, they are the tip of the iceberg?

The situation in Singapore has cause for concern because there is still very limited efforts spent to test everyone. Unless everyone is tested, there is no way to know the extent of the spread of the latest India Variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore.

And we do not have the full picture as to how many people have been infected everyday.

Therefore, it is better to avoid going out as much as possible, especially to crowded places, crowded buses and trains, and drinking and eating joints.

The highly contagious India virus is probably in the air, everywhere. No one is the wiser.

No expert can tell for sure where and when the virus is going to attack you.

Precautions are better than cures.

SSO