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HOW CYTOKINE STORM IMPACT COVID-19 PATIENT?

HOW CYTOKINE STORM IMPACT COVID-19 PATIENT?  What you know about Cytokine storm? How severely it effect COVID-19 patient? Let's get started. " आप   क्रोनोलोजी  समझिए   "!  1-  IMMUNE SYSTEM Our immune system work in a particular order, when a foreign body enters in our body which is not recognized by our immune system then the system gets activated, these foreign bodies are called ANTIGEN which could be- bacteria, fungi or viruses. Effective immune system response involves various thing one of which is INFLAMMATION (an important part of the process). Inflammation has important protective function. The release of inflammatory mediators increases the blood flow to the area, which allows larger number of immune system cells to be carried to the injured tissue, thereby aiding the repairing process. If this inflammatory response is not regulated, a "Cytokine storm" can be triggered. 2- So,  What is  CYTOKINE...

ATTENTION to all Forensic Scientists: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death

ATTENTION !! Attention to all Forensic Scientists: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death COVID-19 has found access to enter human body through dead! The current novel COVID-19 pandemic is definitely a challenging period for every human all around the world. However a new challenge in terms of protection has arisen for forensic scientist who are involve in Forensic pathology , serology or biology as COVID-19 is capable of spreading through the blood of vermic patient. COVID-19 PRESENTING A MENACING GESTURE TO FORENSIC SCIENTIST COVID-19 is a respiratory pathogen and can be transmitted via respiratory droplets, but also through the blood of a viremic patient. You might have heard this phrase that “ dead men tells no tail unless you are in forensics ” well, there is a slight modification to this phrase in regards to present situation and that is “Dead men can spread Coronavirus while telling tails” .   I know it sounds like a movie or as if we are discussing ne...

CoronaVirus: A JOURNEY FROM EPIDEMIC TO PANDEMIC

In the previous blog we have learned about CoronaVirus - infection, mechanism, effects, preventive measures and raised a question. Well answer to that question has changed completely. WHY it is called as CoronaVirus ? Not being judgmental but sometimes looks defines name, same is the case with coronavirus-  It has a core of genetic material covered by an envelope with protein spikes that resemble a crown. In Latin, a crown is a "corona". It’s called a novel coronavirus because it’s new and hasn’t been detected in people before. CoronaVirus: A JOURNEY FROM EPIDEMIC TO PANDEMIC We have traveled half of it's journey in the previous blog, let's travel the other half. The World Health Organization ( WHO ) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a Pandemic , pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread. Now the data have changed a bit, you c...