>>25045/cure/ can never win. That was my whole point. You may think you have, but all you do is buy time. If you find an effective treatment, you will still lose some people who get it too late or not at all, so the push will be made to eliminate the reservoir of infection in the first place, and cure the bats themselves. That might be quite effective, but not 100%, and only the strains of the virus that this herb didn't touch would survive and eventually re-infect the entire bat population. This might take decades, but it would happen. Then you'd see an explosion of a new strain that the herbs can't touch, making its way to the primate and human populations. Since you /cure/-tans would think you won, the development money would have been pulled and moved somewhere else already, and there would again be a delayed response as the new strain gains a foothold and proves difficult to stop.
The only way the /cure/-tans win is if the virus becomes less deadly in the process, and doesn't
need to be eliminated. But in that case, the virus
also wins.