# 7752
Yesterday morning, in mBio: Engineered MERS Strain For Vaccine Research, I wrote about some impressive research that has produced a MERS vaccine candidate virus – but cautioned that having any commercially available vaccine against this virus was likely years away.
Yesterday, Helen Branswell of The Canadian Press examined – in far greater detail – the reasons why a MERS vaccine (at least for humans) isn’t going to be available anytime soon.
As we’ve come to expect from Helen, this is an extraordinarily well researched and well written piece. So follow the link below to read:
Is a MERS vaccine coming? For humans, no time soon
A colourized transmission of the MERS coronavirus that emerged in 2012 is shown. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:32PM EDT
TORONTO -- Scientists from Italy are reporting having engineered a MERS virus that could be used in a vaccine, the second announcement in recent days of progress toward a preventive shot for the new coronavirus.
The developments will likely generate hopeful headlines and may create impressions that if MERS starts to spread globally a vaccine might be quickly available to help combat the new virus.
Don't bet on it.
