I agree to a point but shutting down the economy is not one of them. Now maybe Trump has a plan to clean house I hope so.
How many deaths would there be if nothing extraordinary were being done? The problem here is not the number of deaths presently. The problem is the virulence. The past flu types you could expect to pass to about ten people within a week. This one spreads to 45 in a week.
This is a great lesson on preparedness. The world may well start thinking like we should be thinking of what it means to be human. I am not for any kind of world government but I am for strong collaboration and openness. I sure hope all this backfires on the DSS. It may well could and we end up in a much better place than ever thought possible. The DSS does not want us thinking out of the box. This could be a really great planet to live on. War should not even be in the equation. Leave it to the DSS to keep providing the world with enemies. Aliens from deep space surely must be in their line up!!
Coronaviruses (CoV) belong to the large family Coronaviridae within the order of Nidovirales. Among them, several human pathogenic strains (HCoV) are known to mainly cause respiratory diseases. While most strains contribute to common cold-like illnesses others lead to severe infections. Most prominent representatives are SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, which can lead to fatal infections with around 10% and 39% mortality, respectively. This resulted in 8098 casualties in the 2002/2003 SARS-CoV outbreak and in 1806 documented human infections (September 2016) during the recent ongoing MERS-CoV outbreak in Saudi Arabia. Currently patients receive treatment focusing on the symptoms connected to the disease rather than addressing the virus as the cause. Therefore, additional treatment options are urgently needed which would ideally be widely available and show a broad affectivity against different human CoVs. Here we show that D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate + glycine sold as " Asprin i.v. 500mg® " (LASAG), which is an approved drug inter alia in the treatment of acute pain, migraine and fever, impairs propagation of different CoV including the highly-pathogenic MERS-CoV in vitro. We demonstrate that the LASAG-dependent impact on virus-induced NF-?B activity coincides with (i) reduced viral titres, (ii) decreased viral protein accumulation and viral RNA synthesis and (iii) impaired formation of viral replication transcription complexes.
Christin Müller, Nadja Karl, John Ziebuhr and Stephan Pleschka* Institute of Medical Virology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Schubertstr 81, 35392 Giessen, Germany
*Corresponding author: Stephan Pleschka, Institute of Medical Virology, Schubertstr. 81, 35392 Giessen, Germany, Tel: 0049 (0)641-99-47750; Fax: 0049 (0)641-99-41209; E-mail: stephan.pleschka@viro.med.uni-giessen.de
Received date: December 05, 2016, Accepted date: December 20, 2016, Published date: December 30, 2016
Coronaviruses (CoV) belong to the large family Coronaviridae within the order of Nidovirales. Among them, several human pathogenic strains (HCoV) are known to mainly cause respiratory diseases. While most strains contribute to common cold-like illnesses others lead to severe infections. Most prominent representatives are SARS- CoV and MERS-CoV, which can lead to fatal infections with around 10% and 39% mortality, respectively. This resulted in 8098 casualties in the 2002/2003 SARS-CoV outbreak and in 1806 documented human infections (September 2016) during the recent on-going MERS-CoV outbreak in Saudi Arabia. Currently patients receive treatment focusing on the symptoms connected to the disease rather than addressing the virus as the cause. Therefore, additional treatment options are urgently needed which would ideally be widely available and show a broad affectivity against different human CoVs. Here we show that D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate + glycine sold as “Asprin i.v. 500mg®” (LASAG), which is an approved drug inter alia in the treatment of acute pain, migraine and fever, impairs propagation of different CoV including the highly-pathogenic MERS-CoV in vitro. We demonstrate that the LASAG-dependent impact on virus-induced NF-?B activity coincides with (i) reduced viral titres, (ii) decreased viral protein accumulation and viral RNA synthesis and (iii) impaired formation of viral replication transcription complexes