Let's just kill any cells we think are infected by a virus. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm curious especially about things like chickenpox/shingles that stay dormant in nerve cells for years. Kill them!
According to Wikipedia, dsRNA viruses are but one type of viruses, but DRACO claims to work on "nearly all" viruses. Can a biologist shed some light on this issue?
Here is the question that this immediately raises in my mind: if this drug can cure any viral infection, then why haven't any species evolved to produce the drug in their own bodies?
Because the universe of good things that you can imagine vastly outnumbers those which were selected for.
That's answered in the article. (The processes which produce similar chemicals are themselves blocked by some viruses.)