Credit: Courtesy of Queensland, Australia, Department of Health
Christopher Broder, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md., and a team of Federal and university scientists have proven that m102.4, a monoclonal antibody effective in treating the deadly Hendra virus, is also effective in treating the highly infectious and deadly agent, Nipah virus, the basis of the 2011 movie, "Contagion."