New `cure all` wonder drug discovered London: In what might be
the greatest medical discovery since penicillin, scientists have
developed a broad-spectrum drug which they claim can cure
everything from the common cold to HIV to almost any other virus
one can think of. A team of researchers at the the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US created the drug, known
by the acronym DRACO, which homes in on infected cells and makes
them self-destruct. Its hit list includes human rhinoviruses --
the bugs that cause half of colds in adults and almost all colds
in children -- flu, polio, a stomach bug and deadly dengue
fever, the But DRACO, they said, is also expected to zap measles
and German measles, cold sores, rabies and even HIV -- and could
be on pharmacy shelves in a decade, the Daily Mail reported.
Lead researcher Mike Rider said: "It`s certainly possible that
there`s some virus that we aren`t able to treat but we haven`t
found it yet. "The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised the
treatment o