https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/infectious/sars-vaccine.htm"Between 2002 and 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infected over 8,000 people worldwide, with almost 800 deaths. As a result of this severe and highly contagious virus, researchers almost immediately started working on developing a vaccine. United States-based researchers took a portion of the SARS DNA to create the vaccine. In particular, they took the DNA of a protein that is responsible for penetrating healthy cells in humans, which causes infection. The DNA in the vaccine cannot actually cause SARS because it only contains the protein responsible for the transmission of the virus. When injected with the SARS vaccine, the body identifies this protein and attacks it. As a result, the body develops immunity to the SARS virus. Due to exposure of the virus in vaccine form, the immune system can destroy the virus in the event of infection [source: BBC News].
In 2004, U.S. researchers successfully gave a SARS vaccine to mice in a trial. The researchers later exposed these mice to the actual SARS vaccine; they found that these mice had very few virus particles in their lungs compared to mice who never received the SARS vaccine. This type of vaccine is much safer than other vaccines that are commonly used, as it uses DNA, rather than killed forms of the actual virus, such as in the conventional flu vaccine.
In China, in 2004, researchers successfully vaccinated people with the SARS vaccine. They found that there were very few side effects associated with the SARS vaccine. Researchers claim that an effective and approved SARS vaccine takes three to five years to produce. There is hope, therefore, that if there is another SARS outbreak in the future, the world will be well-equipped with an effective vaccine [source: SciDevNet]."
Hmmm.
Doesn’t say how many people or where in China.
BTW, that vaccine was NOT approved here because of the side effects when challenged with another coronavirus.
Not sure it went further than experimental ‘victims’ in China either.
But did it affect how the body reacts to CV?
Sci.Dev.Net is an interesting site. This guy is instrumental, or was:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=nick+ishmael+perkins&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=6f1597f6689b455ca1ccf9ddb1b6049c&refig=cef2cfb1e46f42f0c4734b22761f938f&cc=US&setlang=en-US&plvar=0&PC=ACTS#
I’m seeing lots of Chinese names as authors. But there’s this from 5/25/04:
https://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/china-starts-testing-sars-vaccine-on-humans.html
another article on the page pointed to: “a paper in the Journal of Virology showing that cinanserin can stop the SARS virus from replicating.” And mentions “ a collaborative group from China, Germany, Denmark and Poland have spent the past year screening more than 8,000 existing drugs”
https://www.scidev.net/global/disease/news/chinaeurope-team-identifies-15-antisars-drugs.html
Seems strange we haven’t seen any of that mentioned in 2020.
also, a Chinese article from 2008 that refers to ‘lipid rafts’:
“While some studies have shown the possible endocytic pathway for SARS, we have revealed this is a concrete route of entry,” Jiang told SciDev.Net.
By doing so, the research team identified that the SARS virus does not rely on the conventional endocytic pathways to enter cells. Rather, ‘lipid rafts’, a section of the cell membrane that is enriched with cholesterol, play an active role in the entry of the SARS virus.
“In future studies, the rafts could be a potential target for treating SARS by blocking virus entry into cells,” says Jiang.
Liao Kan, a senior scientist from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, praises the study as significant because it has revealed a viral entry pathway, which so far, has been poorly understood.
https://www.scidev.net/global/disease/news/scientists-shed-light-on-sars-virus-cell-entry.html
I think the outcome of the 4 human mice given the Sars wasn’t good. Same as the mice, ferrets and cats - as in dead. But if there’s a company named Sinovac Biotech, or notes from a WHO meeting around the timeframe of the article, I guess the article could be substantiated. I did click the link at the bottom of the article, but the link to SCIENCE mag was inactive.
If the research above was actually accurate, one wonders why none of that seemed to filter down in how China was treating CCPVirus in 2020. Or why the rest of the world was starting essentially from scratch with CCPV. “Lipid rafts” seem a far cry from spike proteins and ACE-2s. We haven’t seen use of cinanserin that China has disclosed, anyway. So are the articles feel good propaganda to make the Chinese people happy happy joy joy? Or is there any basis for them?