Potential New Flu Treatment Would Starve the Virus, Limiting Resistance

Most drugs now used to treat the flu have a straightforward strategy: attack the virus. But a new study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes that it might be possible to take another approach. Researchers there have discovered a way to reduce the cellular material inside a person that influenza cells use to multiply. A news release from the university likens it to “cutting the fuel line on a bank robber’s getaway car.”