Big pharma does not want a cheap drug or homeopathic remedy for this outbreak.

They want an expensive drug you have to take for the rest if your life so you can "manage" your sickness. They no longer cure anything, they "manage" them for big profit

Imagine if it was discovered that this could be cured with herbalism

They would never tell you and would probably go on a public campaign to discredit it if it leaked out to the masses