Coronavirus finally found? Thai doctors report success

Doctors worldwide are researching a drug for the novel lung disease caused by coronaviruses. A combination therapy of Thai doctors works.

• For weeks the coronavirus * puzzled doctors.
• But now Thai doctors are said to have found therapy against the virus infection.
• A combination of two tried and tested medicinal products is said to have an effect.

To date, 95,270 coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide. In the meantime, 3,280 deaths have been reported (as of March 5, 2020). These numbers are extremely worrying, especially because doctors only have symptomatic treatment options , but no causal therapy or even vaccination * is available.

However, Thai doctors are now said to have found a way to successfully treat those affected by combination therapy.

Combination therapy from flu and HIV medication is intended to combat coronavirus infection

Two doctors from the Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok - specialist Dr. Kriangsak Atipornwanich and Professor Subsai Kongsangdao - said during a conference in the Thai capital that a 71-year-old woman experienced significant improvement in symptoms 48 hours after taking two groups of drugs .

The Bangkok Post further reported that it was a drug cocktail consisting of the two drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, which are used for HIV infections * and a flu drug . Two days after the medication was given, the condition of the Chinese patient would have improved significantly, the doctors said.

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Effective medication: Chinese patient recovers two days after taking it

AIDS drugs have already been tested in China against the novel coronavirus *. "We checked the related information and also found that anti-flu medication at MERS ( Editor's note : MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, a virus from the coronavirus family that was first mentioned in 2012 , which can cause a serious respiratory infection, pneumonia and kidney failure) , we combined the two groups of drugs, "said Atipornwanich. After the medication had been administered, the patient would have recovered quickly, the doctor continued.

The combination therapy is now to be tested further in the laboratory , said the Thai authorities. So far, 47 coronavirus infections are known in Thailand.

Sources : www.bangkokpost.com ; www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de; www.rki.de; www.experience.arcgis.com

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