Thursday, February 26, 2009

Help Cure Dengue


As I am sure we have all read in the local rag and on CairnsBlog.net - the dengue situation in Cairns is getting rather alarming. Almost to the point that I am less concerned about getting bitten by a snake than I am about being bitten by a blasted mosquito. (The World Health Organization says mosquitoes cause more than 2 million deaths a year worldwide - making it THE most deadly animal.)



There is hope however, using the combined power of thousands of computers around the world, the World Community Grid project has already completed over 6000 years of computing time on the Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together subproject.



Go here and download the program, be sure to select the Dengue project when you are asked to. It only uses your computer when you are not using it (when you screensaver is active) and will help to predict what new compounds can be used to create antiviral drugs that are effective to cure Dengue!

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