/2012/03/31/draco-death-to-all-viruses/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/03\/31\/draco-death-to-all-viruses\/","trash":"","name":"draco-death-to-all-viruses","parent":"","title":"DRACO: Death to all viruses","date":"2012-03-31 06:01:50","filepath":"posts\/20001479_draco-death-to-all-viruses.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1480\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"rx medicine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rx.png\" alt=\"rx medicine\" width=\"95\" height=\"100\" \/>MIT is developing that has such huge implications on the heath of humanity that\u00a0pharmaceutical companies and the rest of the health care industry are eager to patent it so it doesn't see the light of day.\n\nResearchers at MIT have started testing an antiviral drug that broadly targets all viruses that create double stranded RNA. \u00a0It will kill all viruses and make viral\u00a0diseases\u00a0a thing of the past.\n\nThe drug is not a vaccine and\u00a0doesn't\u00a0protect against future infections. \u00a0But, it is very useful curing someone already infected and could be administered much like penicillin, which was a major medical breakthrough in itself.\n\nThink of all the viral\u00a0diseases\u00a0that would no longer be lethal...\u00a0Hepatitis\u00a0C, HIV, Ebola, Smallpox... and the non-lethal like Herpes.\n\nDRACO is a cool acronym in a project called PANACEA, another cool acronym!\n\n<em>read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.process.org\/discept\/2011\/11\/17\/draco-death-to-the-virus\/\">the article<\/a>.<\/em>\n\n<em>read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022572\">white paper<\/a>.<\/em>\n\n<em>more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ll.mit.edu\/news\/DRACO.html\">from MIT<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
