10th October good news from around

today's good news
- United States Federal reserve to launch FRESH STRESS TESTS on big American Banks
-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner mentioned that Eurozone "very important reforms" is on more promising path to Resolve their zone's debt crisis AND
-  Geithner also Praises Reforms on India's market overhaul,
 at a news conference in new Delhi with  Indian Finance Minister  P Chidambaram, Geithner hailed that India's latest policy reform offered "a very promising path to improving growth outcomes for the Indian Economy."
Lets hope that his reform would go down all the way to benefit the small business people still lingering at the bottom of India's growing wealth

- Chikungunya virus, researchers in Singapore have identified a new way of killing this virus
  National University of Singapore(NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of medicine's LEad Investigator Dr Chu Jang Hann said that they have identified a method that can kill this virus within three days.
Currently the treatment is only relieving fever and several joint pains
their study shows that a molecular approach could kill the virus completely through an intravenous method, it employs a small hairpin RNA technology (shRNA) designed against two specific CHIKV genes so as to silence the virus replication, which subsequently destroy the virus genes and block their production.
.Singapore last breakout  of this case was between  2008 and 2010, where it had close to 1000 cases.

singApraise to this new discovery and hope it will be available to the public especially to Africa soon

Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted by the bite of infected mostquitoes. ...by the Aedes mosquitoe symptoms similar to dengue fever, with an acute febrile phase of the illness lasting only two to five days, followed by a prolonged arthralgic disease that affects the joints of the extremities. The pain associated with CHIKV infection of the joints persists for weeks or months, or in some cases years.