Current thinking - which is to say, they'll think something else in a year or two - is that everyone takes too many antibiotics and we're all becoming immune to the ones we have, and that antibiotics are no good against viruseses anyway because [technical stuff that went in one ear and out the other, something to do with 'flu not being an, um, a biotic. Or something].

However, if the antibiotics for your ear happen, just happen, to fix your 'flu too ... then yay!

I don't have much faith in 'rest', if sleep cured anything, I'd be bounding with health! It stops you feeling shitty, I suppose. But only temporarily.