A cure for all viruses

[Razgovory]

I don't see HIV on that list.

Not a virus.  A divine curse.

[Ideologue]

I don't see HIV on that list.

Not a virus.  A divine curse.

That 10% of white folk are immune to.

Thanks smallpox!

[jimmy olsen]

News chick specifically mentions it will work on the common cold, influenza, polio and several types of hemorrhagic fever.
http://tv.ibtimes.com/mit-discovers-wonder-drug-draco-that-can-kill-any-virus/1641.html

Ide, I thought people attributed that to the Black Death and theorized that it may have been some kind of hemorrhagic fever rather then Yersinia pestis.

[Ideologue]

News chick specifically mentions it will work on the common cold, influenza, polio and several types of hemorrhagic fever.
http://tv.ibtimes.com/mit-discovers-wonder-drug-draco-that-can-kill-any-virus/1641.html

Ide, I thought people attributed that to the Black Death and theorized that it may have been some kind of hemorrhagic fever rather then Yersinia pestis.

My understanding is that the Black Death has been pretty conclusively shown to be Y. pestis, and the hemorrhagic folks with their crypto-Ebola were wrong.

I mean, I might be mistaken.

The last time I looked anything up about CCR-5 delta 32 was that there was some discussion over where it came from, either the Black Death (somehow) or adaptation to smallpox, and the evidence leaned toward smallpox.  Again, could be mistaken.

[jimmy olsen]

News chick specifically mentions it will work on the common cold, influenza, polio and several types of hemorrhagic fever.
http://tv.ibtimes.com/mit-discovers-wonder-drug-draco-that-can-kill-any-virus/1641.html

Ide, I thought people attributed that to the Black Death and theorized that it may have been some kind of hemorrhagic fever rather then Yersinia pestis.

My understanding is that the Black Death has been pretty conclusively shown to be Y. pestis, and the hemorrhagic folks with their crypto-Ebola were wrong.

I mean, I might be mistaken.

The last time I looked anything up about CCR-5 delta 32 was that there was some discussion over where it came from, either the Black Death (somehow) or adaptation to smallpox, and the evidence leaned toward smallpox.  Again, could be mistaken.

Looking it up, you're right. It seems that it was rather conclusively proved last year.

[Fate]

News chick specifically mentions it will work on the common cold, influenza, polio and several types of hemorrhagic fever.
http://tv.ibtimes.com/mit-discovers-wonder-drug-draco-that-can-kill-any-virus/1641.html

Ide, I thought people attributed that to the Black Death and theorized that it may have been some kind of hemorrhagic fever rather then Yersinia pestis.

My understanding is that the Black Death has been pretty conclusively shown to be Y. pestis, and the hemorrhagic folks with their crypto-Ebola were wrong.

I mean, I might be mistaken.

The last time I looked anything up about CCR-5 delta 32 was that there was some discussion over where it came from, either the Black Death (somehow) or adaptation to smallpox, and the evidence leaned toward smallpox.  Again, could be mistaken.

Black Death was definitely bacterial, so yeah, that's not likely to cause a selective pressure for mutant CCR-5 (which is one of the receptors required for HIV to recognize and enter host T-helper cells). Smallpox or some viral infection that specifically targets immune cells sounds more likely.