February 2, 2020 14:30
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Two Thai doctors They affirmed this Sunday, February 2, 2020, that they have achieved cure to one patient of coronavirus from Wuhan with a mixture of medications against the HIV and a flu remedy.
The patient is a 71-year-old Chinese woman who was admitted to a hospital in Hua Hing, southwest of Bangkok, and later transferred with severe symptoms to the Rajavithi hospital in the Thai capital, according to the Bangkok Post.
The doctors Kriangsak Atipornvanich Y Suebsai Kongsangdao of Rajavithi indicated in a press conference that the woman he recovered 48 hours After starting to receive the medicines.
The treatment consists of oseltamivir, one flu used in patients of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and two antiretroviral medications used together against HIV: lopinavir and ritonavir.
On January 24, a group of Chinese scientists indicated in the magazine The Lancet what are they doing clinical trials to cure the coronavirus with lopinavir and ritonavir, which were already used during the crisis of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and 2004.
Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV), similar to the one that causes the common cold, SARS and MERS, causes symptoms such as fever, cough and sore throat, as well as kidney failure and pneumonia, causing death.
This new strain of the coronavirus was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of December and has since expanded to more than twenty countries, including Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Australia, the United States, Germany and Spain
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