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Posted on February 23, 2009 | tags

 
 

U.S.: Could this be the elusive cure to the flu?

  • One treatment to prevent them all. An experimental flu treatment kills multiple strains at once in mice, says the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. The treatment, made from human proteins, managed to kill such strains as bird flu and the 1918 strain that caused an epidemic. But will it work on humans? We’ll find out as soon as the 2010-2011 flu season, when human trials could begin. source
 
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