Coronavirus

Not all coronaviruses are deadly — the ones endemic to humans, like the common cold, are often considered inconsequential. The coronaviruses that pose a pandemic risk, however, are those that hang out in animals - Aylin Woodward

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Towards a universal coronavirus vaccine: science fact or science-fiction?

Coronaviruses cause many diseases, including SARS, MERS and even the common cold. Unlike colds, SARS and MERS are serious respiratory diseases; SARS caused an outbreak of severe pneumonia in China in 2002 in which almost one in ten of the 8098 reported cases were fatal.

MERS emerged in the Middle East in 2012 and while the outbreak continues, the rate of serious disease has been low. This could be because, having learned lessons from SARS, the public health response has been effective; it could be that MERS simply isn’t as infectious as SARS; or MERS may be very infectious but without causing disease in all cases.

SARS and MERS are betacoronaviruses – one of four types of coronavirus.…

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 Towards a universal coronavirus vaccine: science fact or science-fiction?

Coronaviruses cause many diseases, including SARS, MERS and even the common cold. Unlike colds, SARS and MERS are serious respiratory diseases; SARS caused an outbreak of severe pneumonia in China in 2002 in which almost one in ten of the 8098 reported cases were fatal.

CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring an outbreak caused by a novel (new) coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Intermountain Healthcare

Human coronavirus refers to a group of viruses that cause the common cold around the world. Young children are most likely to get infected, but people can have multiple infections over a lifetime – and most people on the planet will get sick from coronavirus at one time or another.

Life in the Fastlane

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are novel coronaviruses that cause severe viral pneumonia in humans.

Medical News Today

Coronaviruses are viruses that belong to the subfamily Coronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae that typically affect the respiratory tract of mammals, including humans - they are associated with the common cold, pneumonia and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The virus may also affect the gut.

Merck Manual

Coronaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses. Coronavirus infections in humans most frequently cause symptoms of the common cold. Coronaviruses 229E and OC43 cause the common cold; the serotypes NL63 and HUK1 have also been associated with the common cold. Two coronaviruses, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, cause much more severe respiratory infections in humans than other coronaviruses. In 2012, the coronavirus MERS-CoV was identified as the cause of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In late 2002, SARS-CoV was identified as the cause of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

NIH

Although a case of SARS has not been documented since 2004, NIAID continues to support more than a dozen research projects on this coronavirus throughout the United States, because the knowledge can be applied to other studies. Those studies include developing SARS treatments, a vaccine, and a better understanding of how the virus interacts with the immune system. When MERS-CoV emerged in 2012, NIAID intramural and extramural scientists mobilized quickly to research the virus. Key areas of investigation include basic research on where MERS-CoV comes from and how it causes disease, the development of animal models to study the virus, and the development of treatments and vaccines.

Sabin Vaccine Institute

Past and ongoing pandemic threats from coronaviruses have prompted a new urgency to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine as a global countermeasure. Both SARS and MERS are classified as Category C biodefense agents by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, with an intense capacity to inflict devastating disease outcomes and disrupt local, national and global economies.

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