N. Korea says it developed a drug that can cure Ebola, AIDS, MERS and SARS.

Scientists around the world can apparently hang up their lab coats, because North Korea says it has found a cure for Ebola, AIDS, MERS, and SARS. The claim is a tough pill to swallow, however, and is likely to be met with a generous dose of skepticism.

For decades, researchers have devoted their careers to finding cures for the diseases, but it turns out Pyongyang has secretly had the solution for 19 years.

That's right – the country apparently first produced the disease-fighting drug in 1996, according to pro-North Korea website Minjok Tongshin.

Pyongyang has failed, however, to provide any proof to its lofty claims.

Although the world's best scientists couldn't crack the code, it seems the cure wasn't actually all that complicated. A natural herb, some plant food, and a few elements were apparently all that were needed to solve a few of science's biggest puzzles.

The injection drug Kumdang-2 was developed from ginseng grown from fertilizer mixed with rare-earth elements, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It even has “micro-quantities of gold and platinum” thrown in, the drug's website says.

The drug is really convenient, because it's supposedly a cure-all for all four diseases.

"Malicious virus infections like SARS, Ebola and MERS are diseases that are related to immune systems, so they can be easily treated by Kumdang-2 injection drug, which is a strong immune reviver," KCNA said. It also claims the drug can cure AIDS.