Well, if what they've found is really the source of the disease, neither antibiotics nor sulfa drugs will do doodly-squat to stop it. AIDS aside, the usual Western approach to treating viruses involve a) vaccination, or b) treating the symptoms, thus keeping the patient alive long enough for the immune system to beat the virus.
Look for at least one colloidal silver enthusiast to poke his head in this thread before it's over. (It's like a tinfoil hat that you swallow.)