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The new approach to vaccines called 'proactive vaccinology', from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Caltech in California , builds a vaccine before the disease even becomes threat.

The jab can protect against several coronaviruses already circulating in bats. READ MORE:Scientists have created a jab to help protect against multiple coronaviruses, even the ones 'we don’t even know about yet', according to its creators.

Current vaccines work by training the immune system to target a single specific type of virus, such as the measles jab. But the new jab can target several. Advertisement This includes some that are currently only found in wild bats but that could, in theory, go on to infect humans in future. He added: 'We’ve created a vaccine that provides protection against a broad range of different coronaviruses — including ones we don’t even know about yet.'

 

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