The seventh chapter of Prophet Without Honour has been posted on AnarchyOnline and WOW it was great! TO: KATHRYNS@NEWSDESK-INT.CNN.COM FROM: JLLOYD@ROAMING.CNN.COM SUBJECT: The big one! Kathy, We need this story live ASAP! We have exactly one hour lead-time on this, but I can’t for the life of me get access to a voice-line or broadband sat connection and I'll just have to hope and pray that this cell link doesn't go AWOL on me before the mail has been sent. Twenty-four minutes until the hourly update from Atlanta, and if you stamp this EXPRESS I ought to be watching Donna reading this at 8PM here in Beijing. My sources are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT reliable, and I'm counting on you, Kathy, so don't screw this up!! Okay, here we go: It's been twelve months since the first outbreak of the flu here in China, and in all that time the world's been holding its breath for the announcement that will put to rest the fear and the paranoia that's haunted us: A drug; a cure. Now that announcement is forthcoming. CNN has come across highly reliable information suggesting that at some point in the next few hours Farmatek, a Silicon Valley based biotechnology corporation, will reveal to the world a drug created using patented nanotechnology (Kathy: get some visual cues here, create a video link to some kind of generic archival footage of Farmatek's nanobots); a drug that will prevent infection of the type-X virus and halt the outbreak of the deadly influenza. Experts had feared that hundreds of millions of people would be infected by this virus in the next few years, and that Hong Kong, Beijing, and Bombay would have to remain under strict martial quarantine. Now there may be hope for an end to the deaths and for the eventual reopening of these cities to the world. There has yet to be an official statement from Farmatek or anyone else, but sources have confirmed to CNN that several batches of the drug have already been shipped out to high-risk areas where the disease has infected over 50% of the population. The development of the drug has been on an unprecedented fast-track, and the FDA has apparently granted the product approval after only a minimal trial period, but the use of nanotechnology does, according to experts (Kathy: get some experts in to say JUST THAT!), result in fewer potential problems and side-effects than with traditional drug research and development. We will follow this story very closely over the next few days, and we will provide updates as soon as we hear of any new developments. As we mentioned earlier, an official statement is expected before the end of the day, and it is believed that not only will Farmatek issue a statement to the media, but representatives for the governments of the United States, the European Union, China, and India will also hold press conferences. Stay tuned to CNN throughout the day...blah blah blah. Kathy: again, you know how big this is, so DON'T SCREW IT UP! I'll keep trying to secure a broadband line and do a live report, but failing that, I'll expect this on the air in FIFTEEN minutes! -jake