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No, the flu, if you mean it as influenza and not just another name for a common cold, is a virus. Tetracycline is used for bacterial infections. It would not have an effect on influenza. The best treatment for the flu is to prevent it with a vaccine, but there are also drugs out there that have been proven somewhat beneficial for the treatment of flu. This would be a drug like oseltamivir (tamiflu).
An important distinction here is that many people get sick and just say they have the flu, when in reality they just have some random viral or bacterial upper respiratory infection. To be certain one has the flu, he/she would need to be tested specifically for a strain of the influenza virus.
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