Not every virus is bad either. There are viruses that infect and kill bacteria.
With a virus like this, a vaccine is about the best that medical science would be able to come up with today. There are antivirals but the technology is not advanced.
In Africa and some parts of South America they use 'voodoo', 'witch doctors' and 'black magic', so we shouldn't have anything to worry about.
; )
Sadly, by the time a vaccine could be developed, it would not be of much help in this current Venezuelan outbreak A rapid, aggressive increase of local vector control might be the best hope for the nearly 29,000,000 people living in Venezuela.
The physical laws of this world has taught me that for every action there is a reaction. Insects' resistance to insecticides accompanies both the benefits and residual effects and complications from insecticide use. According to a survey from the World Health Organization, DDT is still used for vector control inside in interior spaces.
World Health Organization: Global Insecticide Use for Vector-Borne Disease Control 2002-2009
Vector control is an important element of strategies used to control major vector-borne diseases globally, and chemical control remains the most widely used approach.
In recent years, interventions using insecticides have been scaled up in many countries. The need to develop effective systems for pesticide management has been emphasized to ensure judicious use of insecticides, manage insecticide resistance, and reduce risks to human health and the environment, within the context of an integrated vector management (IVM) approach (WHO 2010a; Matthews et al. 2011; van den Berg et al. 2011; WHO 2011a).
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2.3 Description of insecticides
Classes of insecticides
The following classes of insecticides are differentiated (WHO 2006):
• organochlorines, of which DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is the only insecticide reportedly used in vector control;
• organophosphates, such as fenitrothion, malathion and temephos;
• carbamates, such as bendiocarb and propoxur;
• pyrethroids, such as alpha-cypermethrin, bifenthrin, cyfl uthrin, cypermethrin, cyphenothrin, deltamethrin, etofenprox, lambda-cyhalothrin and permethrin;
• insect growth regulators, such as difl ubenzuron, methoprene, novaluron and pyriproxyfen;
• bacterial larvicides, such as Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and B. sphaericus
World Health Organization: Global Insecticide Use for Vector-Borne Disease Control 2002-2009