A coronavirus expert, Baric said if the viruses were too distantly related to SARS — more than 25 percent different — they would not be able to make a hybrid that would infect human cells.

New SARS-like virus is poised to infect humans. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 03 / 160314211501.htm. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

A new bat SARS-like virus has been discovered that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation. However, researchers point out that if the SARS-like virus did jump, it is still ...

The new virus, known as WIV1-CoV, directly binds to the same human receptor as the SARS strain that infected thousands in 2002 (Chapel Hill, N.C. - March 14, 2016) - A SARS-like virus found in ...

A SARS-like virus discovered this summer in the Middle East may infect more than just humans. The pathogen, a close cousin to the one that caused the 2002 to 2003 SARS outbreak, may also be able ...

-- A SARS-like virus could infect humans, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. It comes after two recent outbreaks including Ebola and Zika, which have no vaccines.

Four of these viruses usually cause a mild cold; one caused a major but short-lived epidemic in the early 2000s (the original SARS virus); another causes MERS, a dangerous but limited zoonotic ...

A recent Canadian study raises the possibility that deer — one of the most ubiquitous large mammals in North America — may have infected humans with COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.

Health agency said this case was evidence for human-to-human transmission Coronaviruses are behind common cold and SARS Cases identified in Middle East and people who have traveled there LONDON ...

That widespread carriage of SARS-CoV-2 by deer draws concern due to the possibility of the animals carrying the virus indefinitely – to where they could spread it back to humans in periodic form.

The SARS-like virus can infect cells from multiple species, researchers say. Dec. 12, 2012— -- The SARS-like coronavirus that has killed five people and sickened four more has some important ...