Dozens of Iranians have died of alcohol poisoning in Iran after drinking bootleg alcohol in an attempt to protect themselves from coronavirus.
According to the state media, the people who passed away from alcohol poisoning “drank bootleg alcohol over rumors that it would be effective in treating coronavirus and were poisoned.”
The poisonings were most evident in the province of Khuzestan where 36 people died from bootleg alcohol in comparison to 18 who passed away from Covid-19.
An additional 7 victims have died from alcohol poisoning in Alborz and 1 in Kermanshah.
Since alcohol in the country is banned for the majority of people, people have been resorting to illegally obtained liquor after hearing that alcohol may destroy coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Iranian government has confirmed that the killer bug has spread into all provinces and warned that “force” might be used to enforce travel restrictions and stop people from spreading the virus around the country.
In a recent turn of events, it was revealed that a 100-year-old man has successfully recovered from Covid-19 after doctors treated him with healthy blood donated by former coronavirus patients.
Mr. Wang, who has Alzheimer’s, represented a critical Covid-19 case due to suffering from several underlying conditions including heart failure and high blood pressure.
Despite the odds, however, the senior man recovered shortly after receiving a blood transfusion involving the blood of recovered coronavirus patients.
“Considering the patient was very old and he had a relatively weak immune system, we decided to use recovered coronavirus patient’s blood plasma as the main treatment,” Dr. Cai Chen said in an interview with the local media.
As scientists believe, a blood transfusion might help Covid-19 patients by providing them with virus-fighting proteins generated by people who had already beaten the killer bug.
In theory, it is suggested that the patients can use these antibodies as if they were their own instead of waiting longer for their bodies to generate them.
“The fact that we used anti-virus blood serum to cure the centenarian is going to boost the confidence of other patients,” hospital director Zeng Li told CCTV.
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