Zombie movies have also started with re-entering spacecraft and teenage experimentation with the occult. Don't think much of it.

Fair enough, but at least one person thinks that it could destroy neural ganglia in those who have the herpes virus: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/jekip/new_drug_coul...

Granted, the odds of this translating to a plague of aggressive carnivores rather than dead quadraplegics are low, but if I were a novelist, I'd sequester myself in the attic and bang out a best-seller.

You appear to be confused. They're not talking about the cancer-destroying t-cells, they're talking about the DRACOs drug suite to kill viruses. Two totally different stories.