HIV is specifically a retro-virus, a class of virus that's very hard to get out of a person's system. This specific cure, though, is making it so that the key

HIV is specifically a retro-virus, a class of virus that's very hard to get out of a person's system. This specific cure, though, is making it so that the key that HIV uses to get into a certain door[1] to your cell won't work. Since most viruses get into cells in different ways this won't have any impact on influenza. There's been some work[2] on broad spectrum anti-virals but I don't know where that is right now. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5 [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO