A pill that mimics natural antibodies could fight many kinds of flu

Masked workers wait at the entrance after a group of people formerly under quarantine from swine flu leave a holiday centre turned into quarantine center in Hong Kong on May 7, 2009. Twenty-eight people were released from the centre after seven days of quarantine as they had arrived in Shanghai on a flight with an infected Mexican who had swine fluAn experimental drug that mimics the effect of antibodies produced by the immune system has saved animals given lethal doses of flu viruses

source: newscientist.com