Researchers claim to have discovered cure for SARS

[dArKeR]

Two drugs already in use could be effective in fighting SARS, National Health Research Institutes researchers said yesterday.

The anti-psychotic drug Promazine and Niclosamide, a drug which is used in the treatment of worm infections, may be able to fight the SARS virus, according to the government-run institute.

"After different experiments, we have proved that these two kinds of drugs have a significant effect in inhibiting the replication of SARS-coronavirus," the institute said in a statement.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/10/31/2003074014

[Minstrel Boy]

1. a cocktail of an anti-psychotic and a drug for worm infections?

I wonder how they hit on that. Trial and error?

"No? Okay, let's see if we have better luck with, oh, Zantac and Diazepam."

[goforit]

2. A cure for one of Bush's WMDs!!!!.........

Tisk tisk!!!

[Gman]

3. I'm a dog... BOW WOW

Worm me.

[Occulus]

4. well, maybe not a 'cure'

since virii can't be 'cured' as such. You might get over a cold, the flu, or have even SARS definitively treated away, but as I understand it the virus is ever after present in your system. There's no blanket cure, as there is for bacterial infections, parasites, and the like.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.