Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Dr. Adil Rashid completed his education from University of Kashmir. He has done Ph.D in Statistics with area of specialization as Distribution theory, Statistical Inference, Bio Statistics. He has around 15 Publications and is working as a Research Officer (Scientist-III), Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, University of Kashmir, India
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Corona virus and traditional approach for developing immunity through unani herbal medicine
Author(s): Arsheed Iqbal*, Adil Rashid, Haider Ali Quraishi, Afroza Jan and Shiekh Zahoor Ahmad
Till date four coronaviruses are found to exist i.e. human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), HCoV-0C43, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), fourth human coronavirus, HCoV-NL63 has been reported from a seven-month-old child with bronchiolitis and conjunctival inflammation. Coronaviruses, a genus of the coronaviridae family, are enveloped viruses with large plua- strand RNA genome. The genomic RNA is 27-32 kb in size, capped and polyadenylated. After detailed and extensive research coronaviruses have been found in rats, mice, chickens, swine cattle, horses, dog, cats, rabbits, humans and can cause a wide variety of diseases including gastroenteritis and respiratory tract diseases. The most recent found SARS-CoV can lead to life threating pneumonia and is the most pathogenic human coronavirus identified so far. This fatal and highly contagious virus is.. View more»