Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have discovered vaccine targets with the potential to facilitate the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus. Genetic sequences of the novel...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation. However, researchers point out that if the...
Live attenuated (weakened) viral vaccines are considered safe so long as their “reversal” to a virulent (or disease-causing) virus is prevented. A study published on October 29th in PLOS Pathogens reports on...
Researchers have identified two critical mutations allowing the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus to transmit from bats to humans. The findings were published in the most recent edition of the Journal...
In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...
In an important step toward the creation of a vaccine against deadly coronaviruses, researchers from Purdue University have figured out how to disable a key enzyme of the SARS virus that helps it trick the immune system...
Researchers at Purdue University recently discovered a way to disable the part of the SARS virus that makes it invisible to the immune system. The research team investigated the molecular structure of a particular SARS...
Today, there is no real treatment or vaccine that can tackle Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), a virus that was first detected in 2012 and has already affected 339 people in Saudi Arabia, killing 102. It’s...
A year after SARS hit the world’s radar, scads had been learned about the virus that set off outbreaks in China, Hong Kong, Toronto and other spots, and ignited panic far beyond the affected centres. The coronavirus was...
MERS virus, a Middle-Eastern coronavirus, has recently killed three more people in Saudi Arabia, bringing the total death count from this “cousin” of the SARS virus now to 47. Saudi Arabia’s health ministry confirmed...