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Most efforts to create broader vaccines have aimed to protect against an entire viral family, such as all coronaviruses or all influenza strains, by targeting viral components that mutate less frequently.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

In addition to explaining how bats’ immune systems keep up with coronaviruses, and possibly all viruses, the research also sheds light on bats’ evolutionary history.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025

The closest-known relatives to SARS-CoV-2 that exist in the wild are coronaviruses that circulate in horseshoe bats in southern China, Laos and Vietnam and in pangolins from southern China.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2024

Baroness Hallett's report contrasted the approach taken by the UK with countries in East Asia which had learnt from outbreaks of two coronaviruses – Sars and Mers – over the past two decades.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

Like remdesivir, obeldesivir could continue to be tested in humans for effectiveness and, if appropriate, rapidly deployed against susceptible novel coronaviruses that might emerge.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024