{"id":125449,"date":"2021-05-18T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=125449"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:15:30","slug":"pfizer-and-moderna-covid-vaccines-may-help-stop-future-pandemics-as-study-suggests-they-block-other-viruses-from-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/pfizer-and-moderna-covid-vaccines-may-help-stop-future-pandemics-as-study-suggests-they-block-other-viruses-from-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines may help stop future pandemics as study suggests they block other viruses from animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may help guard against future viruses from animals, according to new research.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experts say current mRNA Covid-19 jabs may already offer some protection against killers like MERS or other unknown threats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udd35<\/strong> <strong>Read our coronavirus live blog\u00a0for the latest updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/b7861a28-58d7-4691-a81c-aa2e928f3b09.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0&quot;exciting&quot; experiments, scientists at North Carolina&#x27;s Duke University tested mRNA vaccines similar to the approved Covid jabs on lab monkeys. <\/p>\n<p>They found they induced antibodies that not only protected against Sars-CoV-2- which causes Covid-19 &#8211; but could also protect against other coronaviruses, reports the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These results demonstrate current mRNA vaccines may provide some protection from future zoonotic betacoronavirus [coronaviruses crossing from animal to human] outbreaks, and provide a platform for further development of pan-betacoronavirus vaccines,&quot; the researchers concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines use mRNA technology while AstraZeneca is considered a viral vector-based vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The mRNA-based Covid vaccine works by tricking the body to produce a harmless piece of the virus, triggering an immune response.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long warned the next coronavirus-style pandemic may well be just &quot;around the corner.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They say it is not a matter of &quot;if&quot;, but &quot;when&quot; another Covid-style pandemic rocks the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>News of the research comes as:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experts warned that the\u00a0Indian variant\u00a0could be up to 60 per cent more transmissible than the Kent strain<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0work-from-home order should END\u00a0next month when lockdown is over, the PM said<\/li>\n<li>New variants\u00a0pose a &#x27;lethal danger&#x27; and could spark the worst Covid wave yet,\u00a0Boris Johnson\u00a0warned<\/li>\n<li>The government announced a\u00a0full public inquiry\u00a0into coronavirus, beginning in Spring 2022<\/li>\n<li>A senior minister refused to\u00a0rule out local lockdowns\u00a0to crack down on Covid hotspots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asked if the next Disease X could potentially be around the corner, Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said in January \u201cabsolutely\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the PA news agency, he said: \u201cYou could use the phrase \u2018it is when, not if\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t put a handle on when, of course. The precise mechanism by which a virus comes out is always extremely unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can never predict precise events, so you have to do it on sort of statistical grounds probability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Disease X&quot; is the name given to the unknown viruses that pose a great danger.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Woolhouse said every year or two scientists are discovering one or two viruses that are transmissible to humans &#8211; a rate that has been constant for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sars-Cov-2 is the third threatening coronavirus to strike this century, after the viruses causing MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) and SARS\u00a0(Severe acute respiratory syndrome).<\/p>\n<p>The research team at Duke &#8211; whose paper was published in Nature-also tested a new jab they developed which works differently to other mRNA vaccines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It showed even more potent cross-protection against other coronaviruses, including all known variants of Sars-CoV-2, bat coronaviruses and Sars-CoV-1. <\/p>\n<p>This new vaccine also stopped viral replication in the nose, suggesting it could have a major impact on the spread of deadly viruses.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/14967264\/pfizer-moderna-vaccines-future-coronavirus-pandemics-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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