A monoclonal antibody that was known to be effective against the fatal Hendra virus is now known to protect against the closely related Nipah virus too -- the basis of the 2011 movie "Contagion" -- a highly infectious and deadly agent that results in acute respiratory distress syndrome and encephalitis, person-to-person transmission, and greater than 90 percent case fatality rates among humans. The results of the study, conducted by a team of Federal and university scientists, ...
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