Stock Up Your Cellar

The avian flue is spreading all over Europe and is taking over the front pages. Please don't be paralysed and take immediate care of the usual flue precaution measures, such as stocking up the red section of your wine cellar.

Italian scientists from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) have discovered that resveratrol restricts the ability of the influenza virus to replicate. Resveratrol is found in the skins of red grapes, and as a constituent of red wine.



However, in some cases, even the wonder drug resveratrol can't help.