<story><title>Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’s worst diseases</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/10/moderna-to-develop-mrna-vaccines-for-15-diseases-that-threaten-global-health/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RedShift1</author><text>Original press release from Moderna: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investors.modernatx.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;news-details&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;Moderna-Announces-Its-Global-Public-Health-Strategy&amp;#x2F;default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;investors.modernatx.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;news-details&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;Moder...&lt;/a&gt;
The targeted diseases are: Chikungunya virus, COVID-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Dengue, Ebola virus disease, HIV, Malaria, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever, Severe fever with Thrombocytopenia syndrome, Tuberculosis, Zika</text></comment>
<story><title>Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’s worst diseases</title><url>https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/10/moderna-to-develop-mrna-vaccines-for-15-diseases-that-threaten-global-health/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netheril96</author><text>When mRNA vaccines were invented, I was told that it had the advantage that a mRNA vaccine can be easily modified so as to be effective against a mutated virus. Yet after so many mutations of covid, all we have is still the original version of covid mRNA vaccine. Why?</text></comment>