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the reagents that they could use to develop countermeasures
and vaccinate swine.
The other issue, just to go on on that, you know, it's
hard to imagine a better reservoir species for emerging
virus than a swine. And the swine population, they have
billions of swine in China, so you have this massive
reservoir. And you have a virus that drops into those, and
that virus can use, although not very well, it can use the
human receptor for entry.
MS. SALAZAR: So I've seen SADS come up a lot when
people are talking about pan-corona vaccines.
DR. BARIC: I wouldn't include it in a pan-corona
vaccine because --
MS. SALAZAR: Am I mistaking it with PEDV?
DR. BARIC: It's a lower probability virus. Okay. So
for a pan-coronavirus vaccine you have pan-coronavirus beta
coronavirus vaccines and alpha coronavirus vaccines. So
this is an alpha coronavirus. So the only thing that
people have really worked on extensively are pan-beta
coronavirus vaccines, focused heavily on SARS coronavirus
and MERS coronavirus. So I don't imagine that that would
be included in any pan-beta coronavirus vaccine.
Now, for pan-alpha coronavirus vaccines, the classic
human coronaviruses are 229E and LN63. SADS would be
something that you might want to consider. But the fact of
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