New study says women fight flu virus better than men

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — This season, many people are fighting the flu. Have you stopped to wonder who is a better patient? Men or women?
In a Twitter poll News 4 ran on Thursday, 19 percent of people said men, 53 percent said women, and the remaining 28 percent said gender does not make a difference.There is science behind this as a new study at Johns Hopkins University says the answer boils down to estrogen.
Estrogen weakened the flu virus in nasal cells from the female test