A new antiviral drug candidate inhibits a broad range of coronaviruses, including the SARS and MERS coronaviruses, a multi-institutional team of investigators reports this week in Science Tr... Read more
“Surgical masks were originally designed to protect the wearer from infectious droplets in clinical settings, but it doesn’t help much to prevent the spread of respiratory diseases such as S... Read more
A Purdue University-led research team has figured out how to disable a part of the SARS virus responsible for hiding it from the immune system; a critical step in developing a vaccine agains... Read more
Researchers describe potential for MERS coronavirus to spread internationally after mass gatherings in the Middle East this summer and fall The life-threatening MERS coronavirus that has eme... Read more